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The President then handed to Mr. John Walker Stather, F.G.S., 
the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund, 
‘ addressing him as follows :— 
Mr. Stather,—The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund has 
been awarded to you by the Council in recognition of the services that you have 
rendered to Geology, as well by fostering a love of research among your fellow- 
citizens in Hull as by your own investigations among the Glacial Deposits of East 
Yorkshire. 
For almost a quarter of a century you have furnished inspiration to an active band 
of fellow-workers, who have worthily maintained the traditions of East Yorkshire as 
a centre of geological study. 
To your own investigations we owe a deeper insight into the intricacies of the latest 
Glacial Deposits; we have learnt to discern in them successive horizons, each dis- 
tinguished by characteristic boulders derived from different remote localities ; we are 
able to trace their extension, beyond the limits once assigned to them, even on to the 
high Chalk Wolds; and we have gained an acquaintance in detail with the drifts of 
Kirmington and Beilsbeck, which possess so great an interest on account of their 
included fossils. 
May you long continue to exercise that wisely directed energy which has enabled 
you, in the scanty leisure of a busy life, to achieve so much for our science. 
In presenting one moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the 
Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Frederick Richard Cowper Reed, M.A., 
the President addressed him in the following words : — 
Mr. Reed,—<A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund 
has been awarded to you by the Council, in acknowledgment of the services that 
you have rendered to Geology and Paleontology, especially by your researches 
among the Invertebrate Fossils of Great Britain and Ireland, Africa, and India. 
Since the publication of your first paper in 1892, memoirs and monographs have 
proceeded from your pen in an unremitting stream. Amidst work so various and 
voluminous, it is difficult, where all is good, to know what to select for special 
praise; but all will acknowledge, as enduring monuments of painstaking industry 
and exact research, your monographs on the Trilobites of Girvan, the Fauna of the 
Bokkeveld Beds, the Fossils of the Northern Shan States, and the Cambrian Fossils 
of Spiti. 
To numerous colleagues in the field you have brought the indispensable aid of 
Paleontology. ‘They will join in welcoming this award, and in expressing with me 
our best wishes for your continued success in the work of investigation. 
The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of the 
Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Professor Robert 
Broom, M.D., to Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Sec.G.8., for transmission 
to the recipient, addressing him as follows :— . 
Dr. Smith Woodward,—The Council of the Geological Society have awarded 
a moiety of the Balance of the Lyell Geological Fund to Professor Robert Broom, in 
recognition of his work on the Fossil Reptiles of the Karoo. 
While practising medicine in New South Wales, Professor Broom found time to 
make researches into the anatomy of the Monotremes and Marsupials ; these led him 
to reflections on the origin of the Mammalia, and, in the hope of obtaining a solution 
of this question, he left Australia for Cape Colony, settling in a district where, while 
still engaged in the practice of his profession, he could collect and study the reptilian 
remains ot the Karoo. He has since been able to devote himself almost entirely to 
this pursuit, and has published a long series of memoirs which add largely to our 
knowledge of the Fossil Reptilia. 
We trust that the Karoo has still many discoveries in store for him, and that he 
may be destined to throw still further light on the predecessors of the Mammalia. 
The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 
giving first of all Obituary Notices of several Fellows deceased since 
the last Annual: Meeting, including Mr. T. Mellard Reade (elected 
