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REPORTS. 



Thursday evening, February 17th. Notices of this specially 

 arranged-for visit were sent out to all the members, and a 

 large number availed themselves of the opportunity to be 

 present. Altogether a most enjoyable evening was spent, 

 thanks to the courtesy of Mr. Lee and Col. de Gruerin, who 

 were untiring in their efforts to point out and describe the 

 treasures contained in this extremely valuable collection of 

 mostly local archa3ological finds. 



For convenience Mr. Lee had temporarily withdrawn 

 from their proper place in the show cases a number of specially 

 valuable objects, including stone hammers and axes, arrow 

 heads, &c, and on these Mr. Lee spoke principally. The 

 richness of the Lukis Museum in these pre-historic imple- 

 ments, as compared with those to be seen in other well-known 

 collections in Great Britain and on the Continent, was 

 frequently commented upon by Mr. Lee. 



Col. de Gruerin afterwards spoke about and described the 

 pottery found by the Lukis' in several of the Dolmens on the 

 island, and which makes such a splendid display in the 

 Museum. 



Captain Francis Du Bois Lukis, who, conditionally, 

 bequeathed his valuable Museum to the States of Guernsey, 

 died on December loth, 1907, aged 81 years. On March 

 18th, 1908, the States accepted the gift, and on April 29th of 

 the same year purchased the house in the Grange Road where 

 for so many years the Museum had been located and looked 

 after by Capt. Lukis. On Friday afternoon, September 17th, 

 1909, the Museum was formally thrown open to the public. 



Turning now to the losses sustained by our Society this 

 year, it is with the sincerest regret the Council finds itself 

 called upon to record the decease of the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. 

 William Ambridge Luff, F.E.S., which occurred at his 

 residence, Brock Road, on May 19th, at the comparatively 

 early age of 59 years. Mr. Luff was one of the Founders of 

 our Society. He was present at the meeting held on October 

 10th, 1882, when the Society first saw the light, and he was 

 then and there made Hon. Treasurer, a post he continued to 

 hold without break to the day of his death. Science generally, 

 and Entomology in particular, but most of all this Society has 

 lost a devoted worker in Mr. Luff. The Society's Tran- 

 sactions, from the beginning to the present time, are full of 

 the valuable results of his labours in the field of Entomology, 

 of which he Avas the great authority in the Channel Islands. 

 Deceased was laid to rest in the Foulon Cemetery on May 

 23rd in the presence of a vast concourse of sorrowing friends. 



