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in studying the phenomena presented by the metamorphic aureoles round the 

 granitic intrusions. Here also your paper on the high-level platform of Bodmin 

 Moor proved that more recent phenomena were not escaping your attention. 

 At the present time the work upon which you are engaged in Warwickshire is 

 already throwing much light on some obscure stratigraphy. 



Will you allow me, as an old colleague who has had every opportunity of 

 judging, to add my own testimony that your work, wherever you have been 

 placed, has been characterized by that thoroughness and conscientiousness in 

 the field which alone can lead to permanent advance in the interpretation of 

 geological phenomena. On behalf of the Council I beg you to accept this 

 Medal and Award. 



Mr. Barrow, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — I feel deeply the honour which the Society has conferred on 

 me by the award of the Murchison Medal. I have spent many years working 

 on those Highland rocks in which the founder of this Medal took so keen an 

 interest. The Murchison Medal has now been awarded to several workers on 

 these rocks, and as no two of us have come to the same conclusions, it is 

 gratifying to feel that the Fellows of this Society can rely implicitly on the 

 impartiality of its Council in its awards. I have to thank you very much for 

 the kindly way in which you have spoken of my work ; it is especially agreeable, 

 as coming from an old colleague and the head of that branch of the service to 

 which I belong, which makes it a special pleasure to receive the Medal from 

 your hands. 



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

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Buckman, — The Lyell Medal is by custom associated more especially 

 with palasontological research. It is, therefore, fittingly awarded to you in 

 recognition of the conspicuous place which you hold among British palaeonto- 

 logists, as regards both your intimate knowledge of species and your philosophic 

 treatment of your subject. While you are an eminent exponent of that school 

 of thought and mode of study with which the name of Hyatt is associated, your 

 own work exhibits a marked originality and independence of outlook. Moreover, 

 not only is it pregnant with suggestive ideas, but it forms an example of pure 

 scientific research having proved to be of value in practical application. 



Your investigations on the generic relationships of the Jurassic Ammonites 

 are the best example of your specialized labours. In a great monograph on the 

 Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite Series, and in other works, you have sought 

 to apply with precision the principles which underlie the correlations between 

 ontogenetic and phylogenetic growth. Your research among the Brachiopods is 

 no less illuminating as an example of the application of evolutionary principles ; 

 and, in dealing with the fossil forms, you have illustrated the production of 

 similar morphic sequences in separate stocks and the frequency of homceo- 

 morphy. 



The zonal method has been applied by you to stratigraphical problems with 

 exceptional minuteness and accuracy. So great is your experience in handling 

 difficult questions of zonal correlation that you have acquired powers of 

 interpretation which seem almost instinctive. 



From my own knowledge I can speak of the value of your services in revising 

 collections in public museums, and in converting mere accumulations of fossils 

 into orderly sequences, eminently instructive as regards both evolution of species 

 and stratigraphical significance. It is my privilege to hand to you this Medal 

 and Award in recognition of brilliant and original palseontological research. 



Mr. Buckman, in replj^, said : — 



Mr. President, — It is with feelings of very great pleasure that I receive the 

 unexpected honour of the Lyell Medal awarded to me by the Council ; and 

 when I listened to your kindly references to my work I felt that your recognition 

 of its merits was far too flattering, especially when so much of what I hoped to 

 accomplish still remains undone owing to certain causes. But it gives me 



