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facilitate the work of my colleagues. No published work of my own has caused 

 me more anxious care, or given me greater satisfaction, than the memoirs 

 issued in the names of my colleagues on the Geological Survey of India ; it 

 was because of their abundantly loyal support that a measure of success 

 followed my administration, and it is because this honour in effect recognizes 

 their good work that it gives me peculiar pleasure. 



In presenting the Balance of. the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund to Mr. William Wickham King, F.G.S., the President 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Wickham King, — The Council have awarded to you the Wollaston 

 Fund, to mark more especially their appreciation of your researches on the 

 Permian Conglomerates of the Lower Severn Basin. Probably no group of 

 British deposits called more urgently for investigation than the red rocks of the 

 Midlands. Their remarkable conglomerates, breccias, and calcareous bands 

 offered problems of the greatest interest ; while the stratigraphical sequence 

 and correlation throughout the country called for reconsideration. Though 

 the story is not yet fully told, your paper marked a notable advance in its 

 elucidation ; the Permian breccias of the Severn Valley are inseparably 

 connected in men's minds with your name. 



The Council are aware that you are engaged upon other problems connected 

 with the district in which you have laboured to such advantage, and make this 

 award, not only in recognition of what you have done, but in anticipation of 

 equally good work to follow. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund to Mr. Ernest Edward Leslie Dixon, 

 B.Sc, F.G.S., addressing him in the following words : — 



Mr. Dixon, — The Murchison Fund has been awarded to you by the Council 

 of our Society to mark their sense of the value of your detailed observations on 

 the Carboniferous Limestone. Working in association with Dr. Vaughan, and 

 armed with the knowledge which you had gained during your official survey of 

 the region, you were able to combine detailed palseontological and stratigraphical 

 observations in such a manner as to produce an exhaustive account of the 

 varying geographical conditions under which the limestone of Gower came into 

 existence. You have also provided us with an admirable account, founded in 

 part upon your own observations, of the remarkable overfolds exhibited in the 

 Pyrenees. May I be permitted to add, from my own knowledge of a colleague 

 with whonr I have long been associated, my testimony to your zeal and to that 

 carefulness in field-work which leaves no stone unturned and no note unmade. 

 The Council in making this award anticipate with confidence further results 

 from your labours. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund to Mr. Llewellyn Treacher, F.G.S., the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Treachee,, — The Council have awarded to you the Lyell Fund in 

 recognition of the value of your contributions on the Chalk. In 1905, in 

 association with Mr. Osborne White, you were able to add greatly to our 

 knowledge of the fauna and zonal affinities of the Taplow phosphatic chalk. 

 In the following year, with the same collaborator, you described some 

 occurrences in Berkshire of phosphatic chalk not previously known, and also 

 published the result of your joint investigations on the Upper Chalk of the 

 western end of the London Basin, showing in detail the extent of the Tertiary 

 transgression. While thus engaged you have not omitted to collect the relics 

 which Neolithic and Palseolithic men have left in the Thames Valley. For my 

 own part I take this opportunity of acknowledging the great utility of such 

 observations as yours in the work of the Geological Suiwey. We look forward 

 to the continuance of your researches. 



