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His studies of Labyriuthodoutia demonstrated the wide range of structure in 

 animals included in that group, and suggested the approximation of the several 

 subdivisions which he described to different orders of reptiles. 



In conveying this Medal to Dr. Fritsch I ask you to express to him our sympathy 

 with his labours in palaeontology which have been carried on for fifty years, and our 

 satisfaction at the completion of his great work on the Permian Fauna of Bohemia. 



Professor Seeley replied as follows : — Mr. President, — 



It is a great pleasure to receive the Lyell Medal on behalf of Professor Fritsch . 

 He has successfully overcome difliculties in the mineral condition of material which 

 might have stopped a less resolute man. His work, enriched with all the learning 

 which a comparative anatomist could bring to palaBontological problems, will, 

 I believe, always rank as one of the more important contributions to knowledge 

 made in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Medal came as a happy 

 surprise to Professor Fritsch, and he writes to me : — 



"In awarding to me the proceeds of the Lyell Fund twenty-five years ago the 

 Society encouraged me in the heavy work of describing the rich fauna of the PeiTnian 

 strata in Bohemia, which I have happily finished after thirty years of labour. 



"This second award will strengthen me to devote the rest of my life to further 

 elaboration of the beautiful paloBontological materials in our Museum. The new 

 revision of the Carboniferous Arachnida and descriptions of two large Saurians from 

 our Chalk formation, on which I am at work, will be the best thanks that I can pay 

 to the Geological Society for this generous gift." 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund to Dr. Wheeltou Hind, F.E.C.S., of Stoke-on- 

 Trent, addressing hira as follows : — Dr. VVheelton Hind, — 



The Council of the Society have awarded to you the Balance of the Proceeds of 

 the Lyell Fund as a mark of their appreciation of your enthusiastic labours among 

 the Carboniferous rocks of this country. Dming the past twelve years, while 

 residing in the interesting region of the Potteries, and largely occupied in arduous 

 professional work, yon have found time for a detailed study of the rocks and fossils 

 of your district, and more especially of the neglected lamellibranchs of the Coal- 

 measures. Extending your labours into bordering and even distant Carboniferous 

 areas, you have not only enriched our knowledge of the stratigraphical divisions, but 

 you have initiated a study of the life-zones — a study which has borne good fruit, and 

 in which we anticipate from you further important results. In addition to this, we 

 are further indebted to you for the monographs on Carboniferous Mollusca which 

 you have contributed to the Palseontographical Society. 



In handing the Proceeds of the Barlow- Jameson Fund, awarded to 

 Mr. William Maynard Hutchings, F.G.S., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 to Mr. George Barrow for transmission to the recipient, the President 

 addressed him as follows : — Mr. Barrow, — 



In the midst of a busy professional life Mr. Hutchings has found time to carry 

 out a series of laborious petrographical researches, and to contribute a number of 

 important papers to the Geological Magazine and other scientific journals. 



He has especially directed his attention to the composition of the finer-grained 

 sedimentary rocks, and to the changes which are produced in them by normal 

 decomposition and contact-action. The rocks on which he has worked have been 

 comparatively neglected by petrologists, in consequence of the difficulties attending 

 their investigation, but he has shown that, by the use of suitable sections and very 

 high powers, these difficulties can be successfully surmounted. 



The Council of the Geological Society have awarded to Mr. Hutchings a grant 

 from the Proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund, as a mark of their appreciation of 

 his contributions to petrographical science, and as an expression of the hope that, in 

 the future as in the past, he will be able to carry on the researches which have 

 thrown so much light on the natural history of our sedimentary rocks. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he first gave obituary notices of several Fellows deceased 



