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Professor Hughes replied as follows : — Mr. President, — 



I am glad to have been asked to receive the award from the Lyell Fund for 

 transmission to Miss Elles, who is debarred by circumstances over which she had no 

 control from standing here to receive for herself this mark of recognition which the 

 Council of the Society have bestowed upon her. 



The research by which she has won for herself a prominent place among geologists 

 might seem of limited scope to all but a few who know the difficulty and the 

 importance of the group of organisms to which she has chiefly devoted her attention. 



I am much pleased, therefore, to be here to-day to testify that Miss Elles, who is 

 Assistant Demonstrator in my Department at Cambridge, has shown herself to be 

 a clear-sighted stratigraphist and an astute pahieontoldgist over a much wider field 

 ihan might appear from the mention of the work for which tliis award has been 

 made, and that she is, besides, accomplished in other and altogether difEerent 

 branches of culture. 



Miss Elles has asked me to communicate her thanks in the following terms : — 



" Please convey to the Council of the Geological Society my warmest thanks for 

 the great honour which they have so unexpectedly conferred in awarding to me the 

 Lyell Fimd for this year. 



" I have been able to do so little as yet, that I am bound to regard it as au 

 incentive to future work, rather than as a reward for anything accomplished. I can 

 only add, that I will strive my very utmost to make the Avork which I may do in the 

 future worthy of the confidence which such an award seems to imply." 



The President; then handed to Mr. George 0. Crick, A.E.S.M., 

 of the Natural History Museum, a moiety of the proceeds of the 

 Barlow-Jameson Fund, addressing him as follows : — Mr. Crick, — 



In the course of the last ten years yon have made yourself an authority on Fossil 

 'Cephalopoda, and have contributed several papers ou various branches of this subject 

 to the Geological Magazine and other journals, among which one may note, as of 

 high general interest, your long and well illustrated essay on the muscular attachment 

 of the animal to the shell, published in the Transactions of the Linuean Society in 

 1898 : a subject which had escaped the attention of palajontologists until you drew 

 ■attention to it. 



Your oiHcial work at the Natural History Museum has included the making of the 

 List of Types and Figured Specimens of Fossil Cephalopoda and the preparation of 

 vol. iii (in conjunction with Dr. A. H. Foord) of the Catalogue of Fossil 

 Cephalopoda in that Museum, and you have kept up the high character of that 

 public establishment for readiness to impart information to the inquiring geologist. 



Mr. Crick replied in the following words : — Mr. President, — 



I beg to express my sincere thanks to the Council of the Geological Society for the 

 great and unexpected honour that they have conferred upon me : and to you, Sir, for 

 the kind words with which you have accompanied the aAvard. Considering the many 

 privileges that pertain to my ofiicial connection with the British Museum, the amount 

 of work which has been done by me is comparatively so small that I regard the 

 award as an encouragement to continue my work, rather than as a recognition of that 

 already accomplished. 



In presenting to Pi'ofessor Theodore Thomas Groom, M.A., D.Sc, 

 the other moiety of the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund, the 

 President addressed him as follows : — Professor Groom, — 



AVhile at Cambridge you gave us two papers on pala3ontological and petrological 

 subjects, and since then we have had from you, together with Mr. Lake, a paper on 

 the Llandovery Eocks of Corwen, in which special reference is made to the structure 

 of the district. Carrying out this line of research, you have contributed two 

 elaborate papers on the Geological Structure of the Malverns, one of which is but 

 lately published ; and in these you have shown your knowledge of some of the latest 

 methods of stratigraphical research, and your power of applying them to the 

 elucidation of important problems in a somewhat difficult district. I trust that this 

 award may be an encouragement to you to continue your good work. 



