Reports & Proceedings—Geological Society of London. 183 
The Report having been received, the President handed the 
Wollaston Medal, awarded to Dr. Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky, to 
M. Constantin Nabokoff, Councillor of the Imperial Russian Embassy, 
addressing him as follows :— 
Councillor NABOKOFF,—The Council of the Geological, Society has this year 
awarded the Wollaston Medal, its highest distinction, to Dr. Alexander P. 
Karpinsky, Honorary Director of the Geological Committee of Petrograd, which 
is responsible for the geological survey of the Russian Empire. Dr. Karpinsky’s 
activities have extended over a period of more than forty years, and so long ago 
as 1874 he made one of his most important discoveries, that of a marine 
formation in the Ural Mountains intermediate between the Carboniferous and 
the Permian Systems. This Artinskian Stage, as Dr. Karpinsky termed it, has 
now been traced in Russia almost from the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, 
besides being recognized in more remote regions, as in the Salt Range of India. 
Its interesting fauna has also been the subject of several important monographs, 
of which one of the most valuable is that on the Ammonoids, contributed by 
Dr. Karpinsky himself to the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd in 
1889. Dr. Karpinsky has continued to take the deepest interest in the geological 
problems presented by the Urals, and has treated them with remarkable versatility 
from every point of view, whether tectonic, petrographical, or paleontological ; 
but as official director of the surveys from 1885 to 1903 he also extended his 
researches to many other districts, and took a prominent part in the preparation 
of the beautiful geological maps which were issued during his period of active 
service. The useful Geological Map of Russia in Europe, which he edited in 
1893, is especially well known. All Dr.-Karpinsky’s work is characterized by 
the most painstaking thoroughness, of which I need only cite his two exhaustive 
memoirs on the Carboniferous ichthyolite, Helicoprion, as conspicuous examples. 
Those who have the privilege of his personal acquaintance recognize in him 
an unassuming and enthusiastic student, still absorbed in following and aiding 
the progress of our science, and pre-eminently one whom the Geological Society 
delights to honour. } 
The Council will be glad if you will convey this medal to Dr. Karpinsky as 
a token of its esteem and admiration, with an expression of its best wishes. 
Councillor Nabokoff replied in the following words :— 
Please accept my sincere thanks for the honour that you have done me in asking 
- me to come here to-day and to convey to Dr. Karpinsky, with the expression of 
your good wishes, the Wollaston Medal which the Council of the Geological 
Society has awarded to him. I feel certain that this great distinction will be 
deeply appreciated by the recipient of the medal, as well as by the Russian 
Geological Committee as a high tribute to their Director. My distinguished 
friend, Dr. H. H. Hayden, Director of the Geological Survey of India, who 
crossed the Pamirs from India into Russian Turkestan a few months before the 
War, has often expressed to me the wish and hope that the highly interesting 
and valuable scientific researches which have been carried out on both sides of 
the Pamirs by the British and Russian geologists may be linked up and 
conducted on a basis of firmer and more complete unity and co-ordination. 
I venture to avail myself of this opportunity of expressing on behalf of my 
countrymen the same wish, and the confident hope that the ties of friendship 
which now unite Britain and Russia may extend from the fields of battle to the 
lofty peaks of science and enlightenment. 
The President then handed the Murchison Medal, awarded to 
Dr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S., to Dr. Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, M.A., 
for transmission to the recipient, and addressed him as follows :— 
Dr. KITcHIN,—The Council has awarded to Dr. Robert Kidston the Murchison 
Medal as a mark of its appreciation of his numerous and valuable contributions 
to our knowledge of fossil plants, especially those of the Carboniferous Period. 
For nearly forty years he has devoted himself to an exhaustive and successful 
