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November 3rd, 1908, I saw a Blackstart at practically the same spot, and 

 Mr. E. D. Marquand also reported seeing several about the same time on 

 the cliffs between Icart and Petit Bot as well as one on the heights above 

 Petit Port. 



B. T. Row swell, Sec. Orni. Sect. 



Report of Section for Marine Zoology. 



There is unfortunately very little to report this year on 

 this branch of our Society's work. 



The only serious worker left to us — Mr. Eric Sharp — 

 was only here for part of the year, and now he too has gone. 



There are three additions to our list to record : — 



(a) A new sponge — Leuconia fistulosa — at Cobo by 

 Mr. Eric Sharp. 



(b) A new anemone, the Glaucous Warty Anemone — 

 Bunodes Hallia — in Grande Greve Bay, Sark, by 

 myself. The specimen is at present living in my 

 aquarium. 



(c) Also a distinct variety of the Globe-horn Anemone, 

 red in colour — Corynactis cor alii no. Although 

 this variety has been known to me for many years 

 as occurring in large numbers in the Gouliot Caves, 

 Sark, it has not hitherto appeared on our list. 



And yet the year has not been entirely deA^oid of interest. 

 Thanks to Miss Mellish and Miss Browne a number of the 

 pupils at the Ladies' College have commenced to take an 

 active interest in this subject and have established a marine 

 aquarium. I trust that some of them, at least, may in time 

 become Avorkers for our Society. Towards the end of October 

 I conducted a number of these pupils, accompanied by Miss 

 Fraser and Miss Browne, to Sark with the object of exploring 

 the Gouliot Caves. Unfortunately the day turned out very 

 stormy, very wet and very cold, and great masses of seaweed, 

 carried in by the waves, partially choked the inner caves. 

 Though we were prevented from seeing and obtaining speci- 

 mens of many things Ave had hoped to, the visit Avas of the 

 greatest interest to me. 



I have visited these caves nearly every year for seA^en- 

 teen years, but have neA^er been into them so late in the year 

 before, and the change since September, when I Avas last there, 

 was most remarkable. The walls of one of the inner caA T es 

 during the summer are closely studded with tens of thousands 

 of Corynactis — the little Globe-horn Anemone. On the right 

 side they are almost exclusively of a red variety — Corynactis 



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