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"Be so good, Mr. President, as to receive the expression of my highest 

 consideration. 



"A. Lacroix." 



In handing the Murchison Medal, awarded to Dr. George Frederic 

 Matthew, to Dr. J. E. Marr, for transmission to the recipient, the 

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Marr, — In awarding the Murchison Medal to Dr. G. F. Matthew the 

 Council desires to mark its high appreciation of the services which he has 

 rendered to geology, more particularly by his researches among the Lower 

 Palaeozoic rocks of New Brunswick. 



Engaged for many years in official duties, and enjoying little of the 

 advantages which come from association with fellow-workers and from 

 access to large libraries and museums, he has still found time and means to 

 make valuable contributions to our science. So long ago as 1865 he com- 

 municated an important paper to this Society, but most of his results have 

 seen the light in Canadian and American journals. Of first importance 

 must be reckoned his Illustrations of the Fauna of the St. John Group, 

 published by the Royal Society of Canada, a work embodying much patient 

 and skilful research. A paper which appeared in 1895, in the Transactions 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences, contained the first account of the 

 Protolenus fauna. Of other important contributions which Dr. Matthew 

 has made to Lower Palaeozoic geology I may mention his discoveries of the 

 Etchiminian and the still older Coldbrook fauna beneath what had pre- 

 viously been considered the oldest fossiliferous horizon in New Brunswick. 

 His work has been distinguished throughout by a happy combination of 

 stratigraphical skill with palasontological knowledge, and some of his 

 studies, such as those on the evolution of the Cambrian Trilobites, have 

 had far-reaching consequences. 



I have much pleasure in handing this Medal to you for transmission to 

 the veteran Canadian geologist, and hope that he will see in it a token 

 that his labours in the field of science are not without recognition in this 

 country. 



Dr. Marr replied : — 



Mr. President,— The interval that has elapsed since the award of the 

 Murchison Medal has been too short, in these times of stress, to allow 

 Dr. Matthew to send an acknowledgment. Had he done so he would 

 doubtless have expressed to the Council his gratification at the honour con- 

 ferred upon him. 



I am glad to receive the Medal on his behalf, so that I, an old friend, 

 ' may add my appreciation of the value of his work, although this is 

 unnecessary after the sympathetic words which you, Sir, have offered 

 concerning it. 



Dr. Matthew's name is the latest in a long list of Canadians on our roll 

 of honour, for the men of the Dominion have excelled in the field of our 

 science, as latterly in another and a sterner field. 



I feel that I may, on behalf of the Fellows of the Society, express the 

 wish that our Medallist, veteran though he be, may yet enjoy many years 

 in the study of his favourite science. 



The President then handed the Lvell Medal, awarded to 

 Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.R.C.S., to Dr. A. Smith Woodward, for 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Smith Woodward, — The Lyell Medal has been awarded by the 

 Council to Dr. Wheelton Hind as a token that he has, in the words of its 

 founder, " deserved well of the science." 



On the side of descriptive and systematic palaeontology his two memoirs 

 on the Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata, published by the Pakeontographical 



