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English Chalk. Wc recognize, however, that, although your work has heen of very 

 great stratigraphical importance, your main object is biological, and that the task 

 you have set yourself is that of working out the evolution of organic forms during 

 the Upper Cretaceous period. 



lu your paper on Micrastcr you have set an example which I trust will bo followed. 

 You have shown how it is possible to deal with a vast mass of mnterial, so as to 

 bring out the maiu facts of evolution, without burdening science with hosts of new 

 names and long lists of synonyms. 



By the application of the den'tal engine to the preparation, and of micro-photography 

 to the illustration, of fossils, you have also rendered signal service to science. 



The Council of the Geological Society, in making this award, have been desirous 

 of expressing their gratitude to you for the work that you have alreadv accomplished, 

 and their lively sense of favours to come. 



In handing the Miivchison Medal, awarded to Mr. Alfred John 

 Jukes-Browne, B.A., of H.M. Geological Survey, to Mr. W. Whitaker, 

 for transmission to the recipient, the President addressed him as 

 follows : — Mr. Whitaker, — 



Mr. Jukes-Browue, whose absence we all deeply regret, has aided the progress 

 of geology in many ways. His numerous writings ou the Upper Cretaceous Rocks 

 are too well known to make it necessary for me to refer to them in detail. He has, 

 from the first, recognized the enormous importance of associating pala-ontological 

 with stratigraphical work, and by original research, as well as by a critical study 

 of the writings of othei's, has made himself master of the geology of that period 

 to which he has especially devoted himself. 



But he possesses also a good all-round knowledge of geology. Ilis Handbooks on 

 Physical and Historical Geology have been of great service to students, and his 

 suggestive work ou the Building of the British Isles has been the means of directing 

 attention to many problems of considerable theoretical interest. 



There is yet another way in which he has rendered great service to geology, and 

 that is as a stimulator of work in others. I am siu"e that no one will be more ready 

 to acknowledge this than Mr. William Hill, with whom Mr. Jukes-Browne has 

 been so long associated. 



In recognition of these many services to our science, the Council have awarded to 

 him the Murchison Medal, which I, an old College friend and fellow-student, now 

 a-^k you to transmit to him with our heartiest good wishes. 



Mr. Whitaker, having expressed his gratification at the privilege 

 of receiving the Medal on behalf of an old colleague and valued 

 friend, read the following extracts from a letter wliich he had 

 received from Mr. Jukes-Browne : — 



" I beg you to convey to the Council of the Geological Society my deep appreciation 

 of the honour conferred upon me by the award of the Murchison ^Medal, and my 

 great regret that the state of my health makes it impossible for me to be present in 

 person to express my acknowledgments. 



" That such work as I have been able to accomplish should be thought worthy of 

 this high reward is not onlv a present gratification, but will be an incentive to show 

 myself more worthv of such recognition. I feel also that I have been specially 

 fortunate in mv friends, and that without the assistance of two of them in particular 

 —Mr. W. Hill and Professor J. B. Harrison— many of the investigations in which 

 I have been concerned w'ould have been iucomj)lete. 



" I should like further to sav that the pleasure of receiving the :Murchison Medal 

 «m the present occasion is much enhanced by the knowledge that the Wollaston 

 Medal is at the same time awarded to my old friend Professor Harmis. whose zonal 

 work among the Cretaceous rocks of England and France has addid so much to our 

 knowledge of those rocks." 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. Thomas Sargeant 

 Hall, M.A., of Melbourne, to Professor J. W. Judd, for transmission 

 to the recipient, addressing him as follows :— Professor Judd,— 



