FIELD CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 
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made a vigorous start, (after the decease of the Young Natural¬ 
ists’ Society,) as a branch of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society, under the designation of the “Great Yarmouth Naturalists’ 
Society,” and with the evident intention of doing good work if 
we may judge by reports received. 
FIELD CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 
Guernsey Society of Natural Science and Local 
Research. —The usual monthly meeting of this society was held 
on Wednesday evening January ioth, The president Mr. E. D. 
Marquand exhibited specimens of a rare lichen Uynbilicaria 
pustulata, Hffm. which he had recently found on the cliffs near 
Petit Bo Bay. It had been previously recorded from Guernsey in 
Leighton’s Lichen Flora of Great Britain on the authority of the 
late Mr. F. C. Lukis. 'The plant is extremely interesting, it 
being a sub-Alpine species. It is recorded in England from the 
higher parts of Dartmoor and the Welsh and Cumbrian Mountains 
etc. Its occurrence in Guernsey with such mosses as Bryum 
alpinum and Grimmia leucophcea seems to point back to a period 
when the altitude of the land greatly exceeded what it is at 
present. 
The president then read his “ Notes on the Mammalia of 
Guernsey, ” he himself from his personal knowledge giving the 
following Mammalia as breeding in a wild state in the island :— 
Hedgehog, introduced about 50 years ago, now common ; Rabbit ; 
Hare, introduced and exterminated ; Brown Rat ; Common 
Mouse; Short-tailed Field Mouse; Common Shrew; Horseshoe 
Bat; Long-eared Bat; Little Bat; Common Porpoise. To this 
list, must bemadded :—The Stoat. A specimen was shot by 
Colonel Codings ; and there are two in the Museum recently 
shot in the island. Long-tailed Field Mouse: there are two 
specimens in the museum from Guernsey, and Mr. Hocart 
reports them as formerly very plentiful at Mont Crevelt. The 
Seal has been taken in Alderney, Serk and Herm ; but the 
Society would be pleased if it could record a Guernsey specimen. 
Additional Bats probably exist; one, a high-flier of light colour, 
has been observed by Mr. Luff in the Talbot Valley. The 
Council would be very pleased if someone would procure an ex¬ 
ample. It seems probable that the Black Rat still exists in 
Guernsey ; it is still common in Herm, Serk and Brechon. Other 
members of the mouse and rat tribe may also occur, especially 
those frequenting ponds and streams. The members would be 
pleased to receive Guernsey specimens of any of these creatures 
not entered on the society’s list, 
