EXCUESION TO HEEM. 



July 15th was the day selected for an excursion to Herm, 

 the spring tide offering a favourable opportunity for members 

 interested in marine zoology to examine the extensive sand and 

 shell beaches left bare at low water. About 30 members and 

 friends embarked on board the Alert, which, crossing the Little 

 Eussel, passed between the two outer beacons, heading for the 

 harbour; but as the tide had already fallen considerably, turned 

 southward and ran for the Channel (the Percee) between 

 Herm and J ethou. The strong tide in this intricate narrow 

 passage, makes navigation dangerous, so, although the view 

 over the adjacent islets, Jethou and Crevichon* with Guernsey 

 in the distance, was pretty enough, we were not sorry to find 

 ourselves safely landed on the steps at the Eosiere. 



After landing, it was announced that at 3.30, members 

 would assemble at the Old Chapel, when Eev. G. Lee, Eector 

 of St. Peter-Port, would read a paper on the history of Herm, 

 and until then members would be free to follow the bent of 

 their own inclinations ; and that permission had been granted 

 by Mr. McNaught, agent of the owners, to members, to visit 

 every part of the island provided they did no mischief to the 

 standing crops. 



The shell beaches on the Eastern coast are among the 

 most noted natural curiosties of the Channel Islands, and usually 

 attract the majority of visitors ; to them on this occasion most 

 of the ladies repaired. The northern one is by far the largest, 



^During his visits to the Channel Islands, Professor Babington 

 landed on Crevichon ; he enumerates 22 species of Flowering Plants and 

 Perns he noticed growing on it. Since then a granite quarry has been 

 worked there, the blocks of stone were used in the construction of the 

 S.W. wall of St. Peter-Port harbour at the commencement of the 

 Works. 



