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Seit einer Eeihe von Jahren mit Untersucbungen iiber fossile Yertebraten 

 beschaftigt, war es stets mein Bestreben, ihre genetischen Zusammenhange und 

 Entwicklungswege sowie die Geschichte ibrer Anpassungen zu verfolgen. Auf 

 dem Wege weiterschreitend, den mir mein bocbverehrter Freund Louis Dollo 

 gewiesen bat, will icb aucb ferner meine ganze Kraft diesen Untersucbungen 

 zuwenden, um micb der mir heute zuteil gewordenen Ehrung nicbt unwiirdig 

 zu erweisen ; die Bigsby Medal wird ein neuer Ansporn fiir micb sein, in 

 meinen wissenscbaftlichen Arbeiten nicbt zu erlahmen. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Professor Owen Thomas Jones, M.A., 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Jones, — Up to witbin tbe last few years tbe wide-spreading and 

 rugged expanse of Central Wales was tinted upon our geological maps of 

 a uniform pink colour, almost as if it were composed of tbe strata of a single 

 sub-formation. But, little by little, geologists of tbe younger generation have 

 been working out tbe details of its complicated structure, collecting tbe fossils, 

 and bringing its component rock-groups into line and harmony with their zone- 

 fellows elsewhere. In this work of reformation you have taken a full share. 

 While still a member of the Geological Survey you devoted your holidays to the 

 enthusiastic study of these complicated strata of your native land, and in your 

 Plynlimmon paper you have most successfully unravelled the sequence and 

 structure of that ' heart of Mid-Wales ' and of much of the ground to the west. 

 I have much pleasure in handing to you the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Fund, which the Council has awarded to you in recognition of the 

 good work that you have done, and as an incentive to you to complete it — a task 

 which will be rendered easier by your appointment as Professor of Geology in 

 the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Mr. Edgar Sterling Cobbold, F.G.S., the President 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Cobbold, — Although the county of Shropshire was to Murchison 

 a veritable Golconda, he was not able to remove all its treasure or to wrest 

 all its secrets, but left a generous reward for his many successors. Among 

 them, by your excavations in a district rendered difficult by earth-movement 

 and thick soil-covering, you have succeeded in obtaining a new Cambrian 

 sub-fauna and an array of new genera and species of Trilobites. You have 

 not only made important contributions to what was hitherto known of the local 

 succession of the subdivisions of those ancient rocks, but you have by your 

 figures and descriptions added much to our previous knowledge of their fossils. 

 It is appropriate that the Murchison Fund should pass into ' Siluria ' and to one 

 working on Older Palaeozoic rocks, as a token of the good- will of your fellow- 

 workers, a mark of their pleasure in your achievement, and an expression of 

 their confidence in your future work. 



The President then presented to Dr. Charles Gilbert Cullis, F.G.S., 

 the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, addressing 

 him as follows : — 



Dr. Cullis, — I need hardly express the pleasure that it gives me to hand the 

 Balance of the Lyell Fund to a colleague for whom I have so much respect, and 

 in whose judgment and ability I place so much confidence. You are able to 

 look back upon a great number of students who have passed out into the world 

 bearing the marks of your training, and you have reason to be proud of the 

 work that they are doing. Your original contribution to the study of the core 

 of the Funafuti Boring, with its careful record and explanation of the 

 occurrence of calcite, aragonite, and dolomite therein ; your work on the Forest 

 of Dean and May Hill ; and your discovery of the occurrence of dolomite 

 crystals in the Keuper Marls, have all been the fruit of painstaking research, 

 with the gratifying result of forwarding the researches of others. All those 



