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Society in awarding him a moiety of the Lyell Fund. The work to which Dr. 

 Forsyth-Major has devoted his life so entirely accords with the researches andlahonrs 

 of Sir Charles Lyell that I cannot douht the appropriateness of this Award. 

 ' Dr. Forsyth-Major has devoted many years to the elucidation of the Pleistocene 

 and Pliocene mammalian faunas of the Val d'Arno and Nortliern Italy, and his 

 numerous memoirs attest the value and accuracy of his work. Lately he has devoted 

 two years to the exploration of the Pliocene fauna of the Island of Samos, and has 

 obtained thence two very important collections (at present only partially examined) — 

 one now in the Geneva Museum, the other in the British Museum (Natural History), 

 Cromwell Road. Among these are a large number of forms specificaUy identical 

 with the mammals from the equivalent deposits of Pikermi in Attica, Baltavar in 

 Hungary, and Maragha in Persia ; and also several new types of much interest as 

 showing a former wider distribution for existing forms. 



It is Dr. Forsyth-Major's hope to spend the early summer months in London, to 

 complete his descriptions of these fossil remains, which your Award will doubtless 

 assist him in doing. 



He writes as follows : — "Would you kindly transmit to the President and Council 

 of the Geological Society my grateful acknowledgments of the honour conferred 

 upon me, which I vahie so much the more as coming from a scientific body of my 

 own country, to which, owing to the fact that my family resides abroad, I have 

 become nearly a stranger. 



" If I rightly understand the intention of the Coiracil, this Award is given less 

 as a mark of their approval of what I have already done than as an incentive to 

 future labours. 



' ' In my palfeontological work I have striven to follow the example of one of the 

 masters of our science, the late Dr. Hugh Falconer, devoting myself more to the 

 collecting of facts and observations than to their speedy publication. This reserve 

 seems to be imposed upon us even more in our day than in that of Dr. Falconer's." 



In presenting the other half of the Balance of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund to G. W. Lamplugh, Esq., F.G.S., the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Lamplugh, — The Coimcil, in awarding to you one-half of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund, desires to assure you of the estimation in which it holds 

 your work, and of the pleasure it will derive from their further prosecution. Your 

 researches among the Glacial deposits of Yorkshire have been followed with much 

 interest, and we have rejoiced in the enthusiasm which not only carried you through 

 these labours at home, but which impelled you to seek the solution of some of your 

 difficulties by journeying to the far distant shores of British Columbia. Your 

 investigation of the Speeton Clay ailords a striking example of how our knowledge 

 may be corrected and extended by the patient labours of an observer resident on the 

 spot which he has to examine. I hope you will accept this Award Avith the best 

 wishes of the Council and of the Society. 



Mr. Lamplugh, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — That I should have been 

 selected by the Council to receive this Award ailords me the greatest encouragement, 

 since it comes to me as a token that my geological work, in spite of its narrow and 

 local character, has after all a certain value. 



It is scarcely possible that any one who has any sympathy whatever with Nature 

 should spend much time on the Yorkshire coast without becoming more or less of a 

 geologist, and for my own part I drifted almost unconsciously into these studies in 

 my boyhood, and have ever since found therein my happiest and healthiest recreation. 

 My pleasure in them is now redoubled by this proof that the time so happily spent 

 has also been spent usefully. 



I thank you, and hope that, as a coastguard in the service of science, I may still 

 occasionally be able to send to headquarters reports which may contain some items 

 of interest. 



The President proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, in which 

 he first gave Obituary Notices of several Fellows, Foreign Members, 

 and Foreign Correspondents deceased since the last Annual Meeting, 

 including the late Foreign Secretary Sir Warington W. Smyth, 



