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to you, sir, to the Council, and to the kind friends who have aided me hy active 

 counsel or friendly criticism, I hereby tender my most warm and hearty thanks. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the balance of the 

 proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Charles W. Andrews, Esq., 

 B.A., B.Sc, F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History), and 

 addressed him as follows : — Mr. Andrews, — 



Although your scientific career has been but a short one, you have lost no time in 

 engaging in active and earnest studies as a comparative anatomist of the fossil and 

 living Vertebrata, and have already done some excellent work on the remains of the 

 extinct gigantic Birds from Madagascar and from other parts of the world. Your 

 papers on Keraterpeton from the Coal-measures, and the Oxfordian genera of 

 Plesiosauria, prove that you have already acquired an accurate knowledge of many 

 points of detail in the anatomy of these extinct reptiles, which can only be appreciated 

 by an equally careful study of existing forms. 



In making this award, the Council desire not only to assist and encourage you in 

 the work which you have taken in hand with so much enthusiasm, but they have 

 a confident expectation that you will ere long contribute papers to their Proceedings, 

 which shall do honour to their prescience and bring kvSos to yourself. 



Mr. Andrews, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — 



I wish to express my sincere thanks to the Council for the great honour that they 

 have done me, and to you, sir, for the altogether too kind remarks that you have 

 made. It was always my earnest desire to study the structure of animals, but in 

 my wildest dreams I never hoped to have such opportunities as I now enjoy at the 

 Natural History Museum, and I feel continually a sense of responsibility and fear 

 lest I should prove unequal to my task. Having now received this award, I am 

 still further bound in honour to do my utmost to justify it, and to fulfil as far as 

 possible the expectations that you have expressed. 



In handing a moiety of the Barlow-Jameson Fund to Dr. G. J. 

 Hinde, F.G.S. (for transmission to Joseph Wright, Esq., F.G.S., of 

 Belfast), the President addressed him as follows : — Dr. Hinde, — 



The Council have awarded the sum of twenty pounds from the Barlow-Jameson 

 Fund to Mr. Joseph Wright, in recognition of the valuable services that he has 

 rendered to the palaeontology, not only of the Carboniferous rocks in the South, hut 

 of the Cretaceous and post -Tertiary deposits in the North of Ireland, and the glacial 

 deposits there, and in Scotland. 



Mr. Wright is the author of numerous papers in the Transactions of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, on the Irish Liassic and Cretaceous Foraminifera and other 

 Microzoa ; he has also prepared and published many lists of Foraminifera from the 

 Scottish and Irish Boulder-clay and other post-Tertiary deposits. 



He has done much good work, extending over many years, when resident in the 

 South of Ireland, in connection with the fossils of the Carboniferous Limestone, and 

 both as regards these, and the newer deposits of the North, his specimens have been 

 always available to anyone engaged in writing on the fossils. To Davidson, Rupert 

 Jones, Holl, Brady, myself, and others Joseph Wright's cabinet was ever accessible 

 and his specimens freely lent for study. 



I trust that this award will serve to express to Mr. Wright our appreciation of 

 his services, and will act as an incentive to him to continue his useful geological 

 work. 



Dr. Hinde replied as follows : — Mr. President, — 



It gives me great satisfaction to receive this award on behalf of my friend Mr. 

 Joseph Wright. He is unfortunately unable to be present, and has sent the following 

 letter for communication to you : — 



" I desire to express my sincere thanks for the honour conferred upon me by the 

 Council of our Society in recognition of my past work, and for their assistance in 

 the further prosecution of my researches. Working so remote from the headquarters 

 of the Society causes this award to be the more appreciated. 



