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and archaeology, has in the past induced him to find time for original research 

 in the midst of scholastic duties. We hope that in the near future his 

 continued labours will produce equally good results. 



In presenting one moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Dr. Lewis Moysey, B.A., the 

 President addressed him in the following words : — 



Dr. Moysey, — The Council has awarded to you a moiety of the Proceeds of 

 the Lyell Fund in recognition of the value of your work on the fossils of the 

 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Coal-field. Your contribution to a recently 

 published Geological Survey memoir shows the wide range of the investigations 

 which you have carried on in the intervals of a busy professional life. Not 

 only have you added considerably to our general knowledge of the coal-field, but 

 by the exercise of great patience and skill, and by using a novel method to 

 obtain satisfactory material from a most unpromising matrix, you have 

 discovered several rare as well as new forms of Crustacea, some of which you 

 have described. You have also taken up with enthusiasm the study of those 

 palseontological outcasts, Palcsoxyris, Vetacapsula, and Fayolia. The Council 

 anticipates with confidence further results from your researches, when you are 

 freed from military duties and can resume your favourite studies. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to John Parkinson, 

 M.A., to Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., for transmission to the 

 recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Bonney, — The Council has awarded to Mr. John Parkinson a moiety of 

 the Lyell Fund in acknowledgment of the value of his numerous contributions 

 to geology, chiefly made in the intervals of arduous duties when conducting 

 mining surveys in various parts of the world. He studied engineering at 

 University College, London, and there acquired a sound knowledge of geology, 

 which was afterwards increased at Cambridge. He at once proceeded to do 

 excellent service to our science, and among the most important of his early 

 petrological contributions may be specially mentioned his studies of the 

 relations of the granites to the diorites in the northern and eastern parts of 

 Jersey, and the light thrown by the hollow spherulites in the obsidian of the 

 Yellowstone Park on the so-called ' pyromerides ' of Boulay Bay. The value 

 of his work on the Guernsey diorites must not be forgotten, nor of that in 

 Northern Pembrokeshire and near Tintagel. He has touched with good effect 

 on the lake-basins of the Canadian Bocky Mountains, and on the petrology of 

 Ceylon and India. During more recent years he has also made notable 

 contributions to our knowledge of the geology of Southern Nigeria, the Gold 

 Coast, and Liberia. I shall be glad if you will convey this award to 

 Mr. Parkinson, with the Council's best wishes for the continued success of his 

 researches in the future. 



In presenting the Proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund to 

 Mr. Joseph G. Hamling, F.G.S., the President addressed . him as 

 follows : — 



Mr. Hamling, — The Council has awarded to you the Proceeds of the Barlow- 

 Jameson Fund as a mark of its appreciation of your geological work in North 

 Devon, and as an encouragement to further research. For many years you 

 have collected the rare fossils from the Culm and Devonian rocks of the county 

 in which you reside, and have made numerous important observations on their 

 stratigraphical arrangement. In the report of the excursion of the Geologists' 

 Association to Barnstaple in 1910, you published a useful summary of your 

 results in that district ; and you have also contributed to the Transactions of 

 the Devonshire Association and the Somersetshire Natural History Society. 

 As one who has had the privilege of accompanying you in the field on many 

 occasions, I have great pleasure in handing to you this award. 



