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In handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological 
Fund, awarded to Mr. George Walter Tyrrell, F.G.S., to Dr. Herbert 
Lapworth, Sec. G.S., for transmission to the recipient, the President 
addressed him in the following words :— 
Dr. LAPWORTH,—The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Fund has 
been awarded to Mr. G. W. Tyrrell in recognition of his contributions to the 
petrology of South-Western Scotland. His keen petrographic insight was first 
shown in his description of the quartz-dolerite sills of Kilsyth. His results of 
most general interest to geologists are those connected with the Paleozoic 
alkaline rocks; for his investigation of Lugarite has added to petrology 
a peculiar rock-species and important evidence in favour of the differentiation 
of igneous rocks by the sinking of their heavier constituents. In several papers 
on the Auchineden Hills he has described their igneous rocks and their glacial 
and physical features; and in his recent account of the ravine known as the 
Whangie he has advanced conclusive evidence of its formation by earth- 
movements. As the Senior Assistant in the Geological Department of Glasgow 
University, and later also as Lecturer on Petrology there, he has done much 
towards the development of that school of geology. The Council hopes that 
this award may encourage and assist him in further research. 
The President then presented a moiety of the Balance of the 
Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton, 
addressing him as follows :— 
Mr. HINTON,—The Council has awarded to you a moiety of the Proceeds of 
the Lyell Fund in recognition of your researches on the British Pleistocene 
Mammalia, and as an incentive to further work of the same kind. Under 
circumstances frequently discouraging, you have for many years devoted 
yourself especially to the study of the Rodentia and the Insectivora, and have 
obtained a remarkable knowledge of the skeleton and teeth of certain groups 
which are most commonly met with among fossils. In this manner you have 
made discoveries with an important bearing on many problems of Pleistocene 
geology, which you have never failed to recognize. As one who has followed 
your work with great interest for several years, it gives me much pleasure to 
hand you this award. 
The President presented the other moiety of the Balance of the 
Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Alfred Santer Kennard, 
F.G.8., addressing him in the following words :— 
Mr. KENNARD,—It is particularly appropriate that the second moiety of the 
Proceeds of the Lyell Fund should be awarded to you, who have worked so long 
and so successfully with Mr. Hinton at problems of Pleistocene geology in the 
South of England. In the leisure of a busy life you also have made yourself 
thoroughly acquainted with a group of fossils, the Non-marine Mollusca, which 
are of fundamental importance in classifying and interpreting the various 
deposits in which they occur. Both alone and with Mr. B. B. Woodward you 
have published many interesting notes and lists of such Mollusca from 
Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in different parts of Britam. The Council 
desires to acknowledge the value of this work, and I have much pleasure in 
handing to you a tangible expression-of its good wishes. 
The President thereafter proceeded to read his Anniversary 
Address, giving obituary notices of Count Solms-Laubach (elected 
a Foreign Member in 1906), René Zeiller (el. For. Memb. 1909), 
Kdmond Rigaux (elected a Foreign Correspondent in 18938), and 
Michel F. Mourlon (el. For. Corresp. 1899), as also of the following 
Fellows: James Geikie (el. 1873), H. H. Howell (el. 1853), R. 
Lydekker (el. 1883, resigned 1915), C. Callaway (el. 1875, resigned 
1906), A. Vaughan (el. 1900), O. A. Derby (el. 1884), W. Anderson 
