Scientific Intelligence — Geology. 3G5 



" The committee appointed to consider and report upon the 

 most proper award of the royal medal for Geology and Minera- 

 logy, recommended that the said medal be given to Charles 

 Lyell, Esq., author of a work entitled ' Principles of Geo- 



" The Committee, declining to express any opinion on the 

 controverted positions contained in that v?ork, beg to state the 

 following as the grounds of their recommendation. 



" 1. The comprehensive view which the author has taken of 

 his subject, and the philosophical spirit and dignity with 

 which he has treated it. 

 " 2. The important service he has rendered to science, by 

 specially directing the attention of geologists to effects pro- 

 duced by existing causes. 

 " 3. His admirable descriptions of many tertiary deposits ; 

 several of these descriptions being drawn from original ob- 

 sei-vations. 

 " 4. The new mode of investigating tertiary deposits, which 

 his labours have greatly contributed to introduce, viz. that 

 of detei'mining the relative proportions of extinct and still 

 existing species of fossils, with a view to discover the rela- 

 tive ages of distant and unconnected tertiary deposits. 

 " Resolved — That this report be received, and adopted as the 

 opinion of the Council ; and that the royal medal for Geology 

 and Mineralogy be accordingly awarded to Charles Lyell, Esq. 

 for his work entitled ' Principles of Geology? 



" Resolved — That the royal medal for Geology and Mine- 

 ralogy, for the year 1837, be given to the author of the best 

 paper, to be entitled, ' Contributions towards a System of Geo- 

 logical Chronology, founded on an Examination of Fossil 

 Remains, and their attendant Phenomena,' and to be communi- 

 cated to the Royal Society after the present date, prior to the 

 month of June in that year." 



MINERALOGY. 



7. Diamonds at Algiers. — The Sardinian consul at Algiers, 

 M. Peluzo, lately purchased from a native three diamonds, which 

 were found in the auriferous sand of the river Gunu-I, in the 

 province of Constantine. One of them was purchased by M 



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