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researches, you commenced your labours as far back as the year 1854; and for more 
than a third of a century you have continued the almost incessant exertions which 
have led to very important additions to our knowledge, often obtained only at the 
price of severe hardships and at the risk of serious dangers. During the last eleven 
years you have occupied the important and responsible position of Director of the 
Indian Survey ; and it is to your administrative ability in that position that we owe 
many of the valuable results obtained by that Survey in recent years; more especially 
are we indebted to you, and to our Secretary, Dr. Blanford, for that useful Compen- 
dium of Indian Geology which has now become indispensable to all students of our 
science. We feel it to be singularly appropriate that we are able to make this award 
to you just at the time that you return to your native country for the rest you have 
so well earned. 
Mr. Mepuicort replied: —Mr. President,—The award of the Wollaston Medal 
by the Geological Society is the most gratifying distinction that a Geologist can 
receive. It is only as a recognition of devotion to our Science that I can venture to 
accept so great an honour. My work has been chiefly in combination with others, 
and it gives me much consolation to think that my colleagues of the Geological 
Survey of India will share in this reward and will appreciate it. 
In handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation 
Fund to Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., for transmission to Mr. 
John Horne, F.G.S., the President addressed him as follows :— 
Dr. Geikie,—The Council of the Geological Society being desirous of aiding Mr. 
John Horne in carrying on his important investigations in the Voleanic and Glacial 
geology of the northern part of our islands, have awarded to him the Wollaston 
Fund for the present year. Seeing that in their researches Messrs. Peach and Horne 
have been so constantly united, it was felt that in the recognition of their services to 
science they ought not to be divided; in the roll of honour containing the names of 
those who have received this award the name of Mr. Horne will appropriately follow 
that of his friend. In transmitting this award to our fellow-worker, will you express 
the hope that it may be of some service to him in enabling him to continue those 
studies which have already done so much towards elucidating the structure of the 
land of his birth ? 
Dr. GxrxrE, in reply, said :—Mr. President,—At the request of my friend and 
colleague, Mr. Horne, 1 have much pleasure in receiving for him the Wollaston 
Fund, and in conveying to the Society his cordial thanks for this mark of its 
appreciation. If anything could add to the pleasure with which he receives this 
prize, it would be the association with his friend and companion in geological labour, 
Mr. Peach, to which you have alluded. A member of the Geological Survey, 
placed in a distant and inaccessible region, has need of all the enthusiasm of his 
nature when he has to combat with great and difficult geological problems amid the 
lesser troubles of hard fare, poor lodging, and the absence of all those sympathies of 
human intercourse which so help us in our pursuits. To such a far off and, as it 
were, forsaken brother there can come no greater encouragement and stimulant than 
recognition of his labours from those who stand nearer to the central pulse of life in 
the country. Mr. Horne is so enthusiastic in the discharge of his official duties and 
in the cause of science as sometimes to risk his health by prolonged exposure to the 
inclemencies of the boisterous north. In this award he feels that his work, remote 
though its area may be, has not escaped the friendly notice of the Geological Society 
of London, and that it encourages him to give himself as heartily in the future as in 
the past to the advancement of the science to which we are all devoted. 
The President then handed the Murchison Medal to Archibald 
Geikie, LL.D., F.G.S., for transmission to Prof. J. 8. Newberry, 
M.D., F.M.G.S., and said :— 
Dr. Geikie,—The Council of this Society in awarding the Murchison Medal to 
Dr. Newberry, desire to place on record their sense of the very high value of his 
geological researches in various parts of the United States. Dr. Newberry’s studies 
have been pursued, during the last thirty years, in connexion with every branch of 
Geological Science. The maps and memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ohio afford 
the highest proofs of his skill as a stratigraphical geologist; numerous papers dealing 
with the phenomena of the Glacial Formations testify to the attention which he has 
