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In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund to Dr. Finlay Lorimer Kitchin, M.A., the President 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Dr. Kitcliin, — The Balance of the Proceeds of the "Wollaston Donation Fund is 

 awarded to you as an acknowledgment of the value of your investigations on the 

 Fossil Brachiopoda and other Invertebrata. 



You took exceptional pains to fit yourself for your future calling by a prolonged 

 course of study. After a successful career at Cambridge you proceeded to Munich, to 

 study pahBontology under a great master — the revered Zittel. The results of youi" 

 training have been already shown by your various papers on Invertebrate Pahcontology, 

 among which I would specially allude to your work on the Jurassic Fauna of Cutch, 

 published in the Pakeontologia Inclica. 



In your present position yoiu' time, like that of most professional geologists, is no 

 doubt largely occupied by routine work, but what you have already done encourages 

 us to hope that your contributions to the science of pala3ontology will rank with those 

 of your distinguished predecessors in the post which you now occupy. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchisoa Geological Fund to Mr. Herbert Lapworth, B.Sc, 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Herbert Lapworth, — The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological 

 Fund is awarded to you in acknowledgment of your investigations among the 

 Llandovery rocks of the Rhayader district. 



During the intervals of a busy professional life you have devoted your attention 

 to a line of research with which the name of Lapworth vnll ever be associated. The 

 success of youi" investigations will be admitted by all who have read your admirable 

 paper in the 56th volume of our Quarterly Journal. Of that paper I need merely say 

 that it is worthy of the son of Charles Lapworth. We trust that our Journal will, 

 in future years, contain many other equally valuable contributions from your pen. 



I have much pleasure in handing to you this award, bestowed by the Council as an 

 incentive to fui'ther work. 



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

 Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. William George Fearnsides, M.A., the 

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Fearnsides, — A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund is awarded to you by the Council in recognition of your valuable contributions 

 to OMX knowledge of the Lower Palaeozoic and Cretaceous rocks. 



Your first contribution to the Quarterly Journal recorded an interesting discovery 

 on the borders of our University town, where one might have expected that little 

 remained to be done. But, like so many Cambridge men, you, dissatisfied with the 

 simplicity of the Mesozoic rocks of East Anglia, turned your attention to the older 

 rocks of the western tracts of Britain ; and that you have there already obtained most 

 valuable results is proved by your admirable paper on ' ' The Geology of Areuig Fawr 

 and Moel Llyfnant," published in last year's Quarterly Journal. 



Your friends know that this is but a beginning, and that you have already done 

 much work in Wales and elsewhere which is not yet published. We shall look 

 forward with confidence to the results of your continued researches ; and it gives me 

 much pleasure to hand to you this proof of the Council's approbation of what you 

 have already done, and of their interest in your future work. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. Eichard 

 H. Solly, M.A., to Professor W. W. Watts, F.R.S., Sec.G.S., for 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him in the following 

 words : — 



Professor Watts, — The other moiety of the Lyell Geological Fund has been 

 awarded to Mr. Richard H. Solly as an acknowledgment of the valuable work done 

 by him on the minerals of the Binnenthal and elsewhere. Mr. Solly has carried out 

 his labours under difliculties, and in some degree with a lack of encouragement which 



