Meetings, 1889. 



Ill 



of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society" 

 for 1888, was received from the Society. 



Mr. J. B. Eandell read a short paper on the result of his 

 researches on the shores of Lihou Island. This paper, together 

 with an account of the recent excursion to that Island, will be 

 found on a subsequent page. 



Monthly Meeting held August, 21th, 1889, Mr. J. Whitehead, 

 Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. Luff read a very interesting paper (which will be 

 found further on) on " The Nocturnal Macro Lepi- 

 doptera of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm." The 

 paper contained the results of Mr. Luff's labours extending 

 over many years in this branch of the science. It referred also 

 to the work of Rev. F. E. Lowe and Mrs. Boley in the same 

 field. Most of the rarities mentioned were exhibited. Mr. 

 E. D. Marquand, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Luff for 

 his excellent paper, remarked that it was a good example of 

 what such a paper should be, containing, as it did, the result 

 of a great amount of personal observation and research 

 expressed in an agreeable and concise form. Mr. Marquand 

 then alluded to the death, on the 30th July, of the Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley, the eminent English botanist, at the advanced age 

 of 87. Mr. Berkeley was a high authority in all sections of the 

 Cryptogamia, and was the author of many works on the subject, 

 but he excelled in his knowledge of the fungi, and, as a fungo- 

 logist, he had no equal in England. 



Monthly Meeting held September Wi, 1889, Mr. J. White* 

 head, Vice* President > in the Chair. 

 Mr. Sinel gave a most interesting lecture on the 

 M Crustacea," illustrated by numerous preserved specimens, and 



