REPORTS. 



26? 



The Thanksgiving Service that used to be held on every 

 Fifth of November in the Episcopal Churches, was discon- 

 tinued in 1859 by Act of Parliament. 



[A very interesting article on the Guy FaAvkes celebra- 

 tion in Guernsey, by Miss Edith Carey, appears in Folk Lore 

 for March, 1908 ( V'ol. XIX., No. 1, p. 104), accompanied by 

 an illustrative photograph of the St. Martin's Cavalcade of 

 1903 drawn up outside the Duke of York Hotel.] 



Report of the Geological Section, 1011. 



1. — Rue Cauchee, St. Martin's. 

 The cutting back of the bank showed the usual roughly 

 stratified alternation of sands and clays. The sands are in 

 lenticular patches, but the clays are in continuous layers. 



2. — Miellette Quarry, near Norman Point, St. Sampson. 

 By recent workings in this quarry the raised beach has 

 been exposed and found to be more extensive than previously 

 supposed. It belongs to the 50 foot level and slopes north. 

 No ground as high exists between it and the sea, so that 

 when the beach was formed this hill must have bordered 

 the shore. The upper layers pass into sand and gravel, 

 and are covered by about six feet of sandy loam passing 

 into the soil. The beach is again seen in an abandoned 

 quarry to the north-west, and the pebbles scattered over the 

 adjoining fields point to the existence of the deposit over 

 a considerable extent. 



3. — Mont Cuet, Vale. 

 A singular core of rock about 40 feet long was found 

 in working the quarry known as " Grand Camp." This core 

 was oval in section measuring on an average 14 by 9 inches. 

 The rock is syenitic granite and does not differ appreciably 

 from the matrix from which it was entirely separated, except 

 that the grain of the part of the matrix in contact with 

 the core is somewhat finer. The surfaces are as smooth as 

 if waterworn, and show slight marks of fluting as though 

 the core had been forced through the rock forming the matrix. 

 A special paper on this curiosity will be found in another 

 part of these Transactions. 



4. — Small abandoned Quarry in lane from Fanconnaires to 

 Cat el Church. 



The inclusions of fine grained diorite and gneiss in 

 the Cobo granite are worth notice. 



