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REPORTS. 



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Report of the Council, 1912. 



The year just completed has been an interesting one, 

 and much valuable work has been accomplished. Both the 

 Indoor Meetings and the Excursions have been well attended. 

 The Annual Soiree was a great success. Papers have been 

 read on " Amias Andros and Edward, his son " ; " Notes on a 

 deposit of Glacial Clay, and its contents at an elevation of 

 300 feet O.D." ; "Geological and other results of the recent 

 Summer Excursions " ; " The newly-discovered Dolmen, &c, 

 at LTslet " ; "The Sunshine and Rainfall for 1912"; 

 " Guernsey in the latter half of the Fourteenth Century " ; 

 " Lihou and its Priory." 



At this meeting subscriptions were solicited and received 

 towards defraying the cost of restoration (£2) of the old 

 Watch Tower at La Hougue du Pommier, Castel. 



EXCURSIONS. 



The first excursion this year was on April 20th, those 

 who took part being a small working party who located a cave 

 at Les Tielles, in the side of the cliff, but as the cave 

 was extremely difficult to reach the exploration was post- 

 poned until the services of an expert cliff-climber had been 

 secured. 



The postponed exploration took place on June 8th, when 

 Mr. Harold Le Messurier and Mr. F. Tanner descended to 

 the cave and afterwards reported that it had a rocky bottom 

 covered to a depth of three or four inches with loose ground, 

 and that there were no traces of its having been occupied 

 as a shelter by prehistoric man. The cave is about 70 feet 

 from the top of the cliff and faces south-west. 



On June 21st an excursion was made to the Creux du 

 Chien, near Icart Point. Examination revealed that the front 

 of the cave is piled up to a height of 12 feet with ancient beach, 

 forming an almost solid conglomerate. The cave itself is about 

 30 feet high at the entrance and gradually slopes to nothing 

 at the back. Although the floor was trenched it yielded 

 nothing of value. The work on this occasion was extremely 

 laborious owing to the heavy coils of rope and a ladder which 

 had to be used to accomplish the last part of the descent at 

 the foot of the slope which is about 200 feet long. 



A driving excursion to Ste. Appoline Chapel took place 

 on July 28th and was well attended. The chapel was 

 thoroughly inspected, and the frescoes on the ceilings were 

 most distinctly seen by a strong light reflected upon them by 



