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The President then handed the balance of the proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund (awarded to Mr. E. J. Garwood, M.A., 

 F.Gr.S.) to Mr. A. Strahan, for transmission to the recipient, 

 addressing him as follows : — Mr. Strahan, — 



At the last Meeting of the Geological Society we had the pleasure of listening to 

 a communication by Mr. Garwood and Dr. Gregory which adds much to our 

 knowledge concerning the Glacial Geology of Spitzbergen. Last year he also gave 

 an address at one of the "At Homes" of the Society, which was highly appreciated 

 by those present. These amply testify to his ability to carry on explorations in 

 difficult regions, where strength of purpose and special training are indispensable 

 to success. Other geological questions have also occupied his attention ; and I may 

 here mention the paper by him in the Geological Magazine on "Magnesian 

 Limestone Concretions" as an interesting contribution to a vexed question, and his 

 paper and reports on Carboniferous Fossils, the result of much labour among the 

 Carboniferous rocks of the North of England. The Council, in making him 

 this Award, hope that it may act as a stimulus to further researches in those fields in 

 which he has already shown such marked ability, and that he will accept it also 

 as a token of appreciation for what he has already accomplished. 



Mr. Strahan, on behalf of the recipient, read the following 

 reply : — " Mr. President, — 



" I desire to thank you and the Council of this Society for the honour conferred 

 upon me in awarding to me the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Fund. 



' ' Some years ago, it occirrred to me that the Carboniferous beds in Britain might be 

 capable of subdivision into life-zones, similar to those already established in Belgium 

 and elsewhere ; but, after several years' work, I realized that the task was much too 

 great for the time at my disposal, and I am glad to say that the work is now being 

 carried on by a Committee of the British Association. 



' ' My last two summers have been devoted to work in the far North ; and the kind 

 encom'agement and assistance which I have received to-day will be a great incentive 

 to the continuance of that work." 



The President tlien handed the Murchison Medal (awarded to 

 Mr. Thomas F. Jamieson, F.G.S.) to Mr. Horace B. Woodward, for 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — Mr. 

 Horace Woodward, — 



The Murchison Medal, with the sum of Ten Guineas, has this year been awarded 

 by the Council of the Geological Society to Mr. Thomas F. Jamieson, in recognition 

 of his long and important researches among the Glacial Deposits of Scotland. It is 

 an interesting fact that Mr. Jamieson's first papers were communicated to this 

 Society through Sir E. Murchison, the founder of this Medal. From the year 1858, 

 when he read a paper before the Society on the Pleistocene Deposits of Aberdeen- 

 shii-e, up to the present time, Mr. Jamieson has continued his researches with 

 unabated enthusiasm, and the Geological Society has received many valuable 

 communications from him. The list includes papers on " Drift and Rolled Gravel 

 of Northern Scotland" in 1860, and "Ice-worn Rocks of Scotland," 1862, in which 

 he describes great erosion by ice-action and the presence of boulders far above 

 the parent rock, and gives a sketch-map of Scotland showing the direction of the 

 Glacial markings. In 1863 was published his well-known paper on the Parallel 

 Roads of Glen Roy, in which he claims that they are beaches of fresh- water lakes — 

 the lakes having originated from glaciers damming the mouths of valleys and reversing 

 their drainage. Further papers on Glacial questions were communicated by him 

 to the Society in 1866, 1866, 1871, 1874, 1882, and 1891, and he may, I think, 

 claim to have done more probably than any other man for the Glacial Geology 

 of Scotland. It must not be forgotten also that this Society always received the 

 first fruits of his laboiu-s, and that his most important papers are to be found in our 

 Quarterly Journal. These papers are full of carefully observed facts, and abound 

 in valuable suggestions, and many of the views advocated by him in some of his 

 earlier papers have been since further advanced by him and other observers in 

 this and other countries. I will ask you, therefore, to be good enough, in 



