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points of view ; for I have had the pleasurable privilege of working directly 

 under him in the field, and have had the honour also of being his official 

 chief. Having thus seen him from all sides, I can confidently assert that 

 Mr. Middlemiss's record of good work has no seamy side. This award will be 

 keenly appreciated by all past and present members of the Indian Geological 

 Survey ; a referendum made to that critical community would have found 

 Mr. Middlemiss leturned unopposed. 



The choice of the Lyell Medal is especially appropriate, as the chance 

 possession in his youth of a copy of the Students Ele7nents was, as we in 

 India know, the work which turned Mr. Middlemiss to the study of geology. 



In writing from India to express his appreciation of the award now made by 

 the Council, Mr. Middlemiss states with obvious sincerity that 



"Much of the pleasure that I have derived from my geological work in 

 this country has been enhanced by the friendly and helpful relations that have 

 always existed between myself and my colleagues, who, I know, rejoice with 

 me in the award ". 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. Richard Bullen Newton, P.G.S., 

 addressing him in the following words : — 



Mr. Newton, — After some years in the PaliBontological Department of the 

 Geological Survey, you were transferred in 1880 to the Geological Department 

 of the British Museum (Natural History). During this long service in two 

 public departments not only has your work been distinguished by care and 

 thoroughness, but you have utilized your opportunities for making yourself well 

 acquainted with the Gasteropoda and Lamellibranchiata, mere especially of the 

 younger geological formations. The contributions which you have thus been 

 able to make to the palaeontology of parts of Africa and Asia, in addition to 

 your work in the British Isles, have enriched the pages of our Journal for 

 many years. On behalf of the Council, I beg to hand you the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Wollaston Fund. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Mr. Frederick Nairn Haward, the President 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Hawakd, — At a time when enthusiasm in the pursuit of proofs of 

 human workmanship on flints has threatened to outrun discretion, you have 

 engaged in a study of the various forms of fracture which can result from 

 natural causes, in order to demonstrate that much of the chipping attributed 

 by some observers to Man may have been due to natural agencies. Your 

 minute and unbiassed investigations cannot fail to exercise a useful influence 

 on the treatment of this speculative subject. In handing to you the Murchison 

 Geological Fund, awarded to you by the Council of this Society, I express the 

 hope that you will regard it as a mark of appreciation of what you have already 

 done and as an encouragement to continue your researches. 



The President then handed a Moiety of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund, awarded to the JRev. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., to 

 Professor W. W. Watts, F.R.S., for transmission to the recipient, 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Professor WATTS, — Before leaving this country, upwards of twenty years ago, 

 Mr. Howchin had already done useful work on the Carboniferous Foraminifera. 

 On his arrival in Australia, he continued his studies on these organisms in the 

 Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Permo-Carboniferous rocks. It was during the 

 prosecution of his researches among the Permo-Carboniferous glacial deposits 

 that he came upon widespread ' tillites ' at an horizon lower than that of the 

 Olenellus and Salterella beds of the Lower Cambrian. The glacial phenomena 

 presented by these rocks were first described in detail in a convincing paper laid 

 by him before this Society in 1908, although a preliminary note on their 

 existence had been read before the Eoyal Society of South Australia in 1901. 



