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I thank the Council of the Geological Society for the very great honour that they 

 have conferred upon me, and you, Su-, for the very kind Avords with which you 

 have accompanied the award. 



The President then lianded the Murchison Medal, awarded to 

 Mr, Edward John Dunn, of Melbourne (Victoria), to Professor 

 J. W. Judd, C.B., F.R.S., for transmission to the recipient, and 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Professor Judd, — The Murchison Medal has been awarded to Mr. E. J. Dunn in 

 recognition of his valuable contributions to geological science by the preparation of 

 his geological maps of South Africa and his investigations concerning the occurrence 

 of gold in Australia. 



Mr. Dunn's career furnishes the world with an admirable proof, were such needed, 

 of the value of the economic application of oiu" science. Natiu'aUy attracted to the 

 science, Mr. Dunn fitted himself for the pursuit of the special branch with which 

 he has been most closely connected, by study at the Eoyal School of Mines, 

 Although his attention has been chiefly directed to gold-bearing rocks in Africa and 

 Australia, he has not neglected branches of geology unconnected with economics, 

 and has in particular contributed to our knowledge of Glacial deposits in different 

 parts of the world. His labom's in mapping portions of South Africa rendered him 

 eminently qualified for the post to which he has now been called — the Diiectorship of 

 the Geological Survey of Victoria. 



Considering the great interest which the founder of this Medal took in the 

 geological conchtions Avhich have controlled the distribution of gold, the award of the 

 Murchison Medal to Mr. Dunn is peculiarly appropriate. 



In conveying it to him, wiU you also wish him on our behalf a successful career in 

 his new office, and remind him that the geologists of this island watch with interest 

 and satisfaction the labours of their brethren in Greater Britain. 



Professor Judd replied as follows : — 



Mr. President, — I regret that the period since the award of this Medal by the 

 Council has not permitted of our receiving a reply to the announcement made to 

 Mr. Dunn at Melbourne. I do not doubt, however, that, on his behalf, I may 

 assure you of the sense Avhich he entertains of the honom' that has been conferred 

 upon him by the award of the Murchison Medal. Thirty years have elapsed since 

 Mr. Dunn made his first contributions to this Society, upon the then little-known 

 geology of South Africa ; and, during more than thirty years, he has laboured 

 unweariedly in solving geological problems in our Colonies — first in South Africa, 

 and afterwards in Australia. Besides the gratification given to the recipient himself, 

 I feel assured that this award — made by the mother of geological societies to one 

 so closely identified with the progress of our science in the Colonies — will be regarded 

 by them as an act not less graceful than just. It will serve to convince those young 

 and vigorous communities of our sjinpathy with, and interest in, their efforts to 

 explore the geological features of the vast areas of the Earth's surface which 

 constitute their heritage. 



In handing the Lyell Medal, awarded to Dr. Hans Eeusch, 

 F.M.G.S., Director of the Geological Survey of Norway, to Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, Sc.D., Sec. E.S., for transmission to the recipient, 

 the President addressed him as follows : — 



Sir Archibald Geikie, — The Lyell Medal is awarded to Dr. Hans Eeusch, as 

 a mark of honorary distinction and as an expression on the part of the Council that 

 he has deserved well of the science, particularly by his contributions to our 

 knowledge of the geology of Norway. 



Born on that " fragment of primeval Europe " extending through Scandinavia and 

 Caledonia, which has been the training-ground of so many geologists of eminence,. 

 Dr. Reusch has zealously pm-sued the study of our science in his native land. 

 Undeterred by the difficulties which beset the students of its rocks, and avoiding the 

 pitfalls of hypothesis, he has garnered a store of information which is of very high 

 value to the students of the crvstalline schists. Nor has he confined his attention to 



