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Mr. Hill replied as follows : — Mr. President, — 



I desire to convey my heartiest thanks to the Council of this Society for the Award 

 ■which you have just placed in my hands. My geological work has been undertaken 

 chiefly to fill my spare time, and I feel my reward ample in the pleasure which 

 geological study has given me, and in the kindly reception of my papers at the hands 

 of this Society. The unexpected honour you confer is to me more gratifying than I 

 can well express. 



You have spoken of the value of my work, but I must not forget that this is much 

 enhanced by the help which I have received from many Fellows of tlie Society, and 

 especially from one who is not often with us. I take this opportunity of thaaking 

 them most heartily. I need hardly say. Sir, that the Award will stimulate me to 

 further efforts in the cause of Geological Science. 



In handing a portion of the Proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson 

 Fund to Mr. Charles Davison, M.A., the President addressed him 

 as follows : — Mi-. Davison, — 



A sum of Twenty-five Pounds from the Proceeds of the Barlow and Jameson 

 Fund has been awarded to you in token of appreciation of your work in geological 

 dynamics — including under that term the study of earthquakes. In this connection 

 I would more especially allude to your valuable notice of the Inverness earthquakes 

 of 1890, wherein your conclusions with reference to the Great Glen of Scotland open 

 out views of the utmost importance in relation to the Highland faults. We are also 

 indebted to you for calculations on the movement of scree-material, based on the 

 expansion of the stones through heat. 



Geologists, I may say, are always glad to receive assistance from mathematicians, 

 and it is to be hoped that this acknowledgement on the part of the Council of the 

 value of your work may have the effect of stimulating you to further study in that 

 direction. 



Mr. Davison, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — 



If anything could add to the welcome and gratifying character of this Award, it 

 would be the words of kindness and encouragement that have accompanied it. For 

 both I beg to tender my sincere and hearty thanks. I have been told. Sir, and in 

 my own case I feel sure that it must be so, that the Council in awarding these Funds 

 look not so much to the past as to the future. I wish I could do more than assure 

 the Council that my best efforts will be used to prevent their kindly hop^ s from 

 being disappointed. 



The President then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 

 in which he first gave Obituary Notices of several Fellows and 

 Foreign Members and Correspondents deceased since the last Annual 

 Meeting, including Prof. John Tyndall, Prof. Charles Pritchard, 

 Mr. Thos. Hawksley, Mr. James W. Davis, Mr. Edward Charlesworth 

 (elected in 1835), the Kev. Leonard Blomefield (elected in 1835), 

 the Rev. W. H. Crosskey, Mr. H. M. Becher, Count Alexander von 

 Keyserling (deceased 1891), Prof. Juan Vilanova y Piera, Prof. K. 

 A. Lessen, Herr Dionys Stur, and Prof. Pierre J. Van Beneden. 

 The other portion of the Address may be summarized as follows : — 



In continuation of the subject of the preceding Anniversary 

 Address, relating to some recent work of the Geological Society, the 

 remaining portion of the paper contributed within the septennial 

 limits is classified under two groups. In the first group are placed 

 papei-s descriptive of the Newer Palgeozoic Rocks, the Older Palgeozoic 

 Rocks, and the Fundamental Rocks, and on General Petrology, 

 which relate more especially to the geology of the British Isles. 

 This group is considered in detail, and constitutes the bulk of the 

 Address. 



