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labours. I will only say that they loug ago placed you among the ablest field- 

 geologists of this country. But besides the work done by you in the field, and 

 expressed on maps and sections, we owe a further debt to you for the clear, terse, 

 and interesting descriptions which you have given of your researches. It is always 

 pleasant as well as instructive to read one of your writings, and this eminent faculty 

 of exposition you have turned to valuable account in your admirable "Manual of 

 Geology." There is to myself a peculiar pleasure in being the channel through 

 which this Award of the Council comes to you, tor I can look on an unbroken 

 friendship with you extending over some thirty years. In handing to you the Medal 

 founded by Murchison, I am reminded of your early intercourse in the Geological 

 Survey under that great leader, when we discussed together the questions to which 

 we have each since devoted ourselves. And I am sure I fulfil the desire of every 

 Fellow of this Society when I express the hope that, in your high position at Oxford 

 and in the original research which you will doubtless still carry on, you may continue 

 for many years that career of distinction which we gladly recognize to-day. 



Prof. Green, in reply, said: — Mr. President, — ^IJncler any circumstances it would 

 be most gratifying to receive from the Geological Society a recognition of my 

 attempts to enlarge the boundaries of our favourite science. But I bold myself 

 specially fortunate on this occasion on two grouuds. A Medal that bears the name 

 of the great chief under whom we both served is specially welcome ; and a further 

 charm is added when I feel that I am receiving this award from one to whom I have 

 been bound in close friendship for a period of more than thirty years. If anything 

 could strengthen the link that binds us together, it would be the receipt of the 

 Murchison Medal at your hands. 1 thank most cordially the Society and yourself 

 for the honour you have done me. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Mr. G. H. Morton, F.G.S,, the 

 President addressed hitn as follows : — 



Mr. Morton, — The Lyell Medal has been adjudged by the Council to you in 

 recognition of your long and meriturious services to geology in the work whicb you 

 have done around Liverpool. To you we are largely indebted for the extent of our 

 knowledge of the Triassic and other strata of that district. Your full and accurate 

 account of the glacial phenomena of your neighbourhood forms an especially 

 important part of your labours. In banding you this Medal, with the sincere good 

 wishes of the Council and of the Society, I may add that, had he been alive, no one 

 would have taken a keener interest in your work or rejoiced more heartily at its due 

 recognition than the illustrious founder of this Medal, Charles Lyell. 



Mi. Morton, in reply, said: — Mr. President, — I fear that 1 shall fail, by any 

 •words at my command, to adecpiately express how much I appreciate the great 

 honour conferred on me by the Award of the Lyell Medal. This kind recognition 

 by the Council of any original work that I may have done is most gratifying, for it 

 is the greatest honour that can be bestowed on a geologist. 



The Medal has been awarded to me before I am too advanced in years to hope to 

 do more work, and it will stimulate me to renewed exertion. The pleasure I now 

 feel is increased at receiving the Medal from your hand. Sir, not only as President 

 of the Geological Society, but as the Director-General of the Geological Survey. 

 I thank you for the compUmeutary manner in which you have referred to my work 

 in the Triassic and other strata around Liverpool. 



The President then handed the Balance of the proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Fund, awarded to Mr. Orville A. Derby, F.G.S., to Mr. 

 H. Bauerman, F.G.S., for transmission to the recipient, addressing 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Bauerman, — I have the pleasure of handing to you tbe Balance of the proceeds 

 of the Wollaston Fund for transmission to Mr. 0. A. Derby, to whom the Council 

 has adjudged this Award in recognition of the value of his various communications 

 on the Geology and Paleontology of Brazil. Some of these writings have far more 

 than a local interest. I would especially refer to those in which Mr. Derby gives 

 the results of his petrographical researches on the nepbeline-bearing rocks, on the 

 distribution of the sources of the rarer minerals, and on the ore-deposits of the 

 Jacapiranga district. In transmitting this Award to him, will you convey the 

 best wishes of the Council and the Society for his continued success in scientific 

 investigation. 



