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of ray cherished ideals. Any value which that work may be found to possess is 

 undoubtedly due, in great part, to the fostering care of the [Society which to-day so 

 generously crowns my labours To the Geological Society, in its corporate capacity, 

 I am indebted for the reception and publication of the results of my studies ; to 

 individuals composing that Society I owe more than I can ever express, for kind 

 sympathy, warm encouragement, and friendly aid ; and to both Council and Members 

 l" sliall always be deeply gratefid alike for helpful suggestion and discriminating 

 criticism. 



In handing the Murchisnn Medal awarded to Professor W. C. 

 Brogger, of Christiania, to J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., for 

 transmission to the recipient, the President spoke as follows : — 



Mr. Teall, — The Council has awarded the Murchison Medal to Professor W. C. 

 Brogger, of Christiania, and in asking you to transmit it to him I -wdU request you 

 also to convey to him an expression of the high estimation in which we hold his 

 researches among the older rocks of Scandinavia. He is remarkable among the 

 geologists of Europe for the great range of his acquirements. If we were to read 

 only his descriptions of the Silurian fauna of Southern Norway we should, doubtless, 

 believe liim to be essentially a palaeontologist. If we looked over his maps and 

 sections of the Christiania district, we should think of him rather as an admirable 

 stratigrapher and cartographer. If, again, we began with his account of the eruptive 

 rocks and their zone of contact- metamorphism, we should conclude that his chief 

 studies must have lain in microscopic and chemical petrography, of which he is so 

 accomplished a master. Or, lastly, if we knew him only by such essays as his late 

 paper on garnets, we should regard him as preeminently a mineralogist, gifted with 

 rare originality. He has swept a full chord on the geological lyre, and every note 

 sounds rich and true. 



It gives me personally an especial pleasure to be the intermediary in conve}ang the 

 award of the Council, for I have had the advantage of being conducted by Professor 

 Brogger over some of his classic ground aroimd Christiania, and I know from my 

 own experience how accurate and exhaustive is the work ; how courteous, genial, 

 and helpful the man. He will, I trust, receive this Medal, bearing the likeness 

 and the name of one of the great masters of British Geology, who was also a pioneer 

 in the geology of iSforway, as a pledge of om- esteem and sympathy with him in the 

 great work he has already accomplished, and in the long and brilliant career which 

 we hope is stiU in store for him. 



Mr. Teall, in reply, read the following communication received by him from 

 Professor Brogger : — "I beg to express my hearty gratitude for the great and com- 

 pletely unexpected honour conferred upon me by the Council of the Geological Society 

 iu the award of the Murchison Medal. 



' ' The Founder of this Medal, almost half a century ago, classified the Silurian 

 rocks of the Christiania district, and pointed out their relations to the corresponding 

 strata of Great Britain ; so that, if the subsequent investigations of Norwegian 

 geologists have furnished results of interest to the students of British Geology, this 

 is only a slight repayment of an old debt. 



"In ancient times the mountain-ranges of northern Great Britain and Norway 

 were probably connected and, in the Quaternary period, the Scandinavian ice-sheet 

 stretched across to England and deposited boulders of Norwegian rocks, some of 

 which Avere derived from the Christiania district. Now, in recent times science has 

 rebuilt the bridges which formerly connected the two countries, inhabited by closely 

 related peoples of the Germanic race. 



" It will be an object of special interest to me to contribute, as far as I am able, 

 to the reconstruction of bonds of union between Great Britain and Norway, in 

 grateful remembrance of the benefits which Norwegian geologists in general, and I 

 myself in particular, have derived from the celebrated Geological Society of Loudon. 



' ' AUow me, in conclusion, to express the great satisfaction I feel at receiving this 

 honour during the Presidency of so eminent a geologist as Dr. Archibald Geikie, 

 who is personally acquainted with the geology of Norway." 



The President then presented the Lyell Medal to Professor T. 

 McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., addi-essing him as follows: — 

 Professor Hughes, — The LyeU Medal has this year been adjudged by the Council 



