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for the terms in which he had heen kind, enough to speak of him. 

 He should regard this donation, not only as an honour received by him, 

 but also as a trust to be expended to the best of his power in accord- 

 ance with the intentions with which it had been conferred upon him 

 by the Society. 



The President next handed the Murchison Medal to Mr. David 

 Forbes for transmission to Mr. W. J. Henwood, F.B.S., F.G.S., and 

 spoke as follows : — 



Mr. David Forbes, — In placing the Murchison Medal and the 

 accompanying cheque in your hands, to be conveyed to our distin- 

 guished Fellow, Mr. William Jory Henwood, I must request you to 

 express to him our great regret that he is unable to attend personally 

 to receive it. His researches on the metalliferous deposits, not only of 

 Cornwall and Devonshire, but of Ireland, Wales, North-western India, 

 North America, Chili, and Brazil, extending as they do to questions of 

 subterranean temperature, electric currents, and the quantities of water 

 present in mines, are recorded in memoirs which form text-books for 

 mining students. They have for the most part been contributed to the 

 lloyal Geological Society of Cornwall, which has taken a pride in 

 publishing them ; but I trust that it will be a source of satisfaction to 

 Mr. Henwood, after fifty years of laborious research, and amidst the 

 physical suffering caused by a protracted illness, to receive this token 

 of appreciation at the hands of another Society which takes no less 

 interest in the subjects of his investigations. 



Mr. David Forbes said that in receiving the Murchison Medal, on 

 behalf of Mr. W. J. Henwood, he was commissioned by that gentleman 

 to express his great regret that the bad state of his health and his 

 advanced age prevented his appearing in person to thank the Council 

 for the high honour they had conferred upon him, and the extreme 

 gratification he felt in finding that the results of his labours in the 

 investigation of the phenomena of mineral veins, which had extended 

 over more than fifty years, had thus been recognized by the Geological 

 Society of London. 



The President then presented to Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.G.S., the 

 Balance of the Murchison Geological Fund, and said : — 



Mr. Seeley, — Your researches in Geology and on Fossil Osteology 

 have now already extended over a period of upwards of sixteen years, 

 and the numerous and valuable essays which you have contributed 

 to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, as well as to the 

 Quarterly Journal of this Society, are only a portion of their fruits. 

 Your separate works on the fossil remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and 

 Beptilia, in the Woodwardian Museum of Cambridge, and on the 

 bones of Pterodactyles, are well known to every student of fossil 

 osteology, and have been thought worthy of the by no means empty 

 compliment of being printed at the expense of the Syndics of the 

 University Press of Cambridge. 



The esteem in which your researches are held by the Council of this 

 Society, and their hope that you may still be enabled to prosecute 

 them, are best evinced by their presenting you with the Balance of the 

 proceeds of the Murchison Fund, which I now have the pleasure of 

 placing in your hands. 



