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to our knowledge of the minerals of the more remote parts of the British 

 Empire, the results of your worii appearing partly in papers published in 

 your own name, but largely in the pages of the Bulletin of the Institute. 

 Your petrological puVjlications include some interesting observations on 

 " Dedolomitization " and a suggestive paper on " The Genetic Classification 

 of Rocks and Ore-Deposits". In addition, you have collaborated with 

 Prof. Cole in an imjjortant memoir on a collection of rock-specimens 

 dredged off the coast of Ireland, showing how these may be made to yield 

 information concerning the submarine geology of the British seas. This 

 award, so well deser\'ed, will, I hope, be an encouragement to you in your 

 future work, whether official or extra-official. 



The President then presented a moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of tlie Lyell Geological Fund to Vincent Charles lUing, 

 M.A.., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Illing, — The Council has awarded to you one moiety of the Balance 

 of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to mark its appreciation of 

 3'our admirable work among the Lower Palceozoic rocks of Warwickshire. 

 Since its discovery by Prof. Charles Lapworth in 1882, the Cambrian inlier 

 of Nuneaton has claimed the attention of numerous geologists ; but it was 

 reserved for you to show how complete a development of the whole 

 Cambrian succession is there exhibited. In a paper communicated to this 

 Society in 1914 you mapped out the various subdivisions which you had 

 recognized, and correlated them with the parallel sequence in other areas. 

 Of the Abbey Shales, representing in small compass a large portion of the 

 Middle Cambrian, you made a full palaeontological study, describing 

 critically the rich trilobitic fauna and making known a number of ncAV 

 species. That this important memoir was professedly only a first instal- 

 ment, warrants us in hoping that you will find in the jjresent award 

 stimulus to the completion of your projected work. 



In presenting the other moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of 

 the Lyell Geological Fund to William Kingdon Spencer, M.A., the 

 President addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Spencek, — A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund has been awarded to you by the Council as an acknow- 

 ledgment of the value of your palaeontological work. 



Starting with the advantage of a zoological training at Oxford, you have 

 devoted the intervals of a busy official life to researches in the palseontology 

 of the Echinoderms. You began by applying Prof. SoUas's method of 

 serial sections to elucidate the structure of the Palreozoic forms 

 Pakhodiacus and A rjelacrinus. You then devoted some years to the study 

 of the Cretaceous star-fishes, the results of which appeared in a monograph 

 upon the British examples and a paper, contributed to the Royal Society, 

 upon "The Evolution of the Cretaceous Asteroidea". Therein you 

 showed, among other conclusions, that the star-fishes are of zonal impor- 

 tance, and that different lineages were evolved along parallel lines. More 

 recently you liave been investigating A\ith great skill that difficult group of 

 fossils, the Pakoozoic Asterozoa, and your monograph, not yet completed, 

 has already brought to light many new facts relative to the morphology 

 and phylogeny of those early Echinoderms. It is our hope that this 

 recognition may encourage you to persevere in the same path. 



The President then delivered his Anniversary Address, giving 

 first obituary notices of 11. Emile Sauvage (elected Foreign Corre- 

 spondent 1879), W. Bullock Clark (For. Corr. 1904), T. McKenny 

 Hughes (el. 1862), Edward Hull (1855), E. H. Tiddeman (1869), 

 G. A. Lebour (1870), Arnold Hague (1880), llol^ert Bell (1865), 

 G. F. Franks (1890), G. C. Crick (1881), H. P. Woodward (1883), 



