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MR. ADOLPHUS COLLENETTE, who died in Guernsey on May 7, in his eighty-first year, was an active worker in local climatology and physical geography, as well as an interesting personality, full of enthusiasm for the scientific point of view. His frequent expositions of scientific discoveries and theories in addresses, papers, and articles in the local society's transactions and the local press made him a well-known figure, and undoubtedly helped to arouse a good deal of scientific interest in an island which gives special opportunities for study. He was one of the moving spirits in what has now become the Societe Guernesiaise, and his very active temperament made him one of its best-known guides in the long series of excursions which it has organised to teach its members the features of the Channel Islands. It is noteworthy that the research interest was well to the fore in this work. For many years Mr. Collenette kept detailed meteorological records in succession to those of the late Dr. Hoskins, so that the book he was writing at his death on the climate of Guernsey would have been based on observations registered continuously for nearly eighty years.
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Adolphus Collenette. Nature 109, 788 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109788a0
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