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so far as they indicated the species indigenous to Guernsey, 

 very misleading. Mr. Marquand stated that he had found within 

 the last three months nearly thirty different mosses not men- 

 tioned in Ansted's list as occurring in Guernsey. These were 

 exhibited. Of the Hepaticse or Scale Mosses, which are not 

 mentioned at all in Ansted, Mr. Marquand had already 

 collected twenty-four or twenty-five species. A short paper 

 on i 1 Corallines " from the Wesley Naturalist, was then read. 

 This finished, the members repaired to the Museum, where the 

 rest of the evening was spent in the examination of specimens. 



Monthly Meeting held March 19th, 1889, Mr. J. Whitehead, 

 Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. John Whitehead exhibited three specimens of foreign 

 sponges of an unusual character, also a very fine Uraster 

 glacialis, dredged off St. Martin's point. In the course of a 

 conversation on the excavations by the " Guernsey Water- 

 works Company,' ' Mr. Collenette mentioned incidentally that 

 the water from wells in a certain district of St. Martin's 

 parish invariably contains a white sediment, which, when 

 analysed, proves to be magnesium and calcium in the form of 

 carbonates. Mr. Marquand exhibited specimens of two land 

 shells recently found by him in Saints' Bay Valley, viz., 

 Zonites Drapanaldi, which is very rare in the south of England, 

 only four stations being known, and Pupa ringens, which is a 

 purely northern shell, not being found south of Hereford. 

 Mr. G. Bowie was elected member of the society. 



Special Meeting held April loth, 1889, Mr. T. GuiUe, President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. J. Sinel, of Jersey, who for many years past has 

 devoted himself to the study of Marine Zoology, and who is a 



