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Mr. Laraplugh, — In asking you to trausrait to Mr. Oldham the Lyell Medal, which 

 has beeu awarded to him, I would wish you to express to him the appreciation of the 

 Council of the value of the work which he has done in the advancement of Geology. 

 During his long connection with the Geological Survey of India, he was able to add 

 much to our knowledge of the geological structure of that great dependency. At the 

 same time he was always alive to the bearing of his observations on the wider 

 problems of our science. Besides his ordinary official duties, he from time to time 

 has undertaken special subjects of enquiry. Of these, probably the most important 

 was his careful investigation of the effects of the great Indian Earthquake of 

 June I'ith, 1897. Smce he retired from his Indian appointment he has continued to 

 take part in the discussion of seismic phenomena, and he has written some noteworthy 

 papers dealing more particularly with the relations of the subject to the internal 

 coustitution of the globe. I greatly regret his absence to-day from illness. 



It would have been to me no small satisfaction that it should have fallen to me to 

 present this Medal, for one of the pleasant memories of my life is that I counted his 

 father among mv friends. As the worthy son of a distinguished sire, he has carried 

 on the family tradition. "Will you tell him that the Society trusts that, as he is now 

 once more resident in this country, we may often see him at our meetings, and that 

 for many years to come we may be favoui'ed with communications from him on the 

 geological questions in which we are all interested. 



Mr. Lamplagh, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Oldham, I will ask your 

 permission to read the following letter, explaining the circumstances, which I received 

 from him this morning : — 



" If you are not, like me, laid up with a mild attack of the universal influenza, 

 I should be very much obliged if you would represent me to-morrow, accept the 

 Medal, and express on my behalf my gratitude for the favour which the Council has 

 accorded me. The grant is the more gratifying as, since I have been free to follow 

 my own inclinations, these have led me to a branch of our science which had almost 

 ceased to be regarded as Geology, but finds its proper place in the ' Principles ' of the 

 founder of the Medal which I ask you to accept on my behalf." 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund to Mr. Herbert Henry Thomas, M.A., the President 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Thomas, — The Balance of the Proceeds of the "NVollaston Donation Fund has 

 been by the Council awai-ded to you, in recognition of the value of your investigations 

 into the composition of sedimentary rocks and also of the work done by you in the 

 Paheozoic series of South Wales. The Society hopes that you may be encouraged to 

 continue your interesting enquiries into the derivation of the finer sediment in ancient 

 stratified formations — a subject which has hitherto been comparatively little studied, 

 but from the pursuit of which much light may be expected to be thrown on the geo- 

 graphical conditions of former geological periods. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund to Miss Ethel Gfertrude Skeat, D.Sc, 

 addressing her as follows : — ^ 



Miss Skeat, — The Council has this year awarded to you the Balance of the Proceeds 

 of the Murchison Geological Fund as a mark of appreciation of your geological work, 

 especially among the Glacial deposits of Denmark and the Lower Paleozoic rocks of 

 "Wales. It is with much gratification that we hail in you another woman who is 

 worthily placed on the roll of those who have gained our awards. AVe trust that you 

 may be able to devote many active and happy years to the further prosecution of the 

 studies in which you have shown such conspicuous success. 



In presenting a moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund to Mr. Harold J. Osborne White, F.G.S., "the 

 President addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Osborne White, — A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund has been awarded to you by the Council, in acknowledgment of the 

 service which you have rendered to Geology by your researches among the Cretaceous 



