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add that I always welcome with especial pleasure occasions of this kind, on which 

 marks of appreciation are conferred by scientific Societies of one country upon 

 eminent men of the other, as they not only tend to draw more closely together the 

 people of Great Britain and America, but they demonstrate to the rest of the world 

 that the two nations are working together for the furtherance of science, and 

 consequently for the advancement of civilization. 



The President then handed the Murchison Medal, awarded to 

 Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, of Stockliolin, to His Excellency, 

 Count Carl Lewenhaupt, Minister for Sweden and Norway, for 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — Your 

 Excellency, — 



Baron Nordenskiold has given much of his time to the arduous work of Arctic 

 exploration, having visited Spitsbergen twice, the first time in 1858, with Torell. 

 Again, in 1868 he organized and started another Arctic expedition, and in 187- 

 he discovered the great masses of native iron of Ovifak, originally described to our 

 Society as meteorites, and also brought home a large collection of fossil plants, from 

 which we learnt much as to the long-past climatic conditions of the Arctic regions. 



In 1875 he went up the Yenisei from the Kara Sea; three years later he first 

 doubled the northernmost point of the Old World, and reached Japan in the latter 

 part of 1879, making what is known as the North-East Passage. 



In 1883 he undertook a second voyage into the interior of Greenland, adding 

 largely thereby to our knowledge of its glacial conditions. 



Among the records of these expeditions, his book entitled " The Voyage of the 

 7V^«," which has been translated into English, and from which we derive much, 

 information as to inland ice, glaciers, aud icebergs, and his work on " The Second 

 Swedish Expedition to Greenland," are notable. 



Wc have also to tliank him for giving us an English version of some of his work, 

 chiefly in the pages of the Geological M.\gazine, in vol. ix of which is a set of papers 

 on the Expedation to Greenland in 1870, while in vol. ii of decade ii we lind the 

 Lecture on the Former Climate of the Polar Ptegions, and in vol. iii a set of papers 

 on the Geology of part of Spitsbergen and a discourse on the distant Transport of 

 Volcanic Dust. 



Both as an observer and as an organizer of expeditions of discovery has Baron 

 Nordenskiold earned our gratitude, of which this Murchison Medal is a sign. 



His Excellency replied in the following words : — Mr. President, — 

 On behalf of Baron Nordenskiold, I beg to express his deep gratitude for the 

 great distinction conferred upon him by the Council of the Geological Society. 

 i shall not fail to transmit the Medal at once, but I may perhaps be alio wed _ tO' 

 mention that 1 have been asked to present the accompanying cheque as a donation 

 from Baron Nordenskiold to the British Antarctic Eund. it is a great pleasure for 

 Baron Nordenskiold to have this opportunity of proving his good wishes for the 

 success of this expedition. 



The President then presented the Lyell Medal to Mr. John 

 Edward Marr, F.R.S., addressing him as follows : — Mr. Marr, — 



From 1876 onwards you have contributed fourteen papers to our Journal, most of 

 them on the Geology of tlie Lake District aud its borders, but two being on Welsh 

 and two on European geology. Of these one may specially note those _ on the 

 pre-Devonian llocks of Bohemia, on the Stockdale shales (done iu_ conjunction with 

 our lamented friend Nicholson), on the Shap Granite and its Associated llocks (done 

 with Mr. Harker), and on Limestone-knolls. 



These papers that you have given us are enough to prove your power as au 

 observer and a reasoner both in the field and at home ; but you have also contributed 

 much to the Geological Magazine, often in association with other workers, and 

 I may remark that the frequent coupling of your name with other names shows how 

 your aid is valued and how well you can work witli others. Nor is this all ; other 

 jouruals have been enriched by your pen, and you have added the following books to 

 the literature of Geology: "The Classification of the Cambrian and Silurian 

 Rocks," " The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology," and " The Scientific Study 

 of Scenery." 



