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Teall, M.A., F.R.S., for transmission to the recipient, the President 

 addressed him as follows : — Mr. Teall, — 



I have the pleasure of handing over to you the balance of the "WoUaston Fund for 

 Professor J. JB. Harrison, in acknowledgment of his work in the West Indies and 

 British Guiana. In the course of the last eight years he has contributed several 

 papers to the Society (in conjunction w-ith Mr. Jukes-Browne and Mr. G. F. Franks) 

 on the Geology of Barbados, which have added much to our knowledge of old coral- 

 reefs, of the past physical geography of the region in which they occur, and of the 

 oceanic deposits with which they are associated. In this work, his ability as 

 a chemist has been of great service. 



He has also done most of the field-work for the Geological Map of Barbados, and 

 has visited other West Indian Islands and part of British Guiana, in order to draw 

 up official reports on soils and gold-bearing rocks. In the last of these visits, made 

 last year, he suffered repeated and nearly fatal attacks of fever, from which he was 

 slowly recovering in December, when we last heard from him. 



Mr. Teall replied in the following words : — Mr. President, — 



In handing this award to me for transmission to Professor Harrison, you place me 

 in a somewhat unusual position. No communication has been received from Professor 

 Harrison since the award was decided upon by the Council. AU that we know 

 about him is that, in December last, he was recovering from an illness brought on by 

 work in the interior of British Guiana, and was contemplating a journey to Barbados 

 in January. The fact of our not having received any acknowledgment from him is, 

 therefore, probably due to his absence from Georgetown. 



I need not repeat what you, Sir, have said about his scientific work in the West 

 Indies and British Guiana. He is a man who, in the midst of professional engage- 

 ments, and without the stimulus of frequent, sympathetic intercourse with fellow- 

 workers in science, has yet found time to carry out important scientific researches in 

 far-distant British Colonies. I feel sure that he would wish me to express, on his 

 behalf, the deep sense of the honour which has been conferred upon him, and 

 to assure the Society that this mark of their appreciation will encourage him to 

 continue his scientific work. 



The President then presented the Miirchison Medal to Mr. B. N. 

 Peach, F.R.S., and a second Murchison Medal to Mr. J. Home, 

 F.R.S.E., addressing them as follows: — Mr. Peach and Mr. Horne, — 



Since the years 1887 and 1888, in which the WoUaston Fund was awarded to you 

 successively, you have continued your work in Scottish Geology, taking a leading part 

 in the latter year in that Report on the Eecent Work of the Geological Survey in the 

 North- Western Highlands, printed in our Journal, in which the new view of 

 the structure of that region is described in some detail. You have also dealt with 

 the Olenelliis -zone in the same district, and, ascending greatly in the geological scale, 

 you have discussed Glacial geology and have undertaken Cavern-research. 



Mr. Peach, moreover, has done much palseontological work, having long acted 

 as Palseontologist to the Scottish Survey, and it should not be forgotten that he 

 described the first fossil scorpion found in the Silurian rocks of Scotland. He has 

 also given us a paper on some additions to the fauna of the Olenellus-zone, and has 

 noticed a radiolarian chert of Arenig age. 



Mr. Horne, either alone or in conjunction with other colleagues, has given us 

 a paper on ' ' Foliated Granites and their Relations to the Crystalline Schists," 

 showing an intimate relation between the two rocks and that the foHation in the 

 former may have originated in at least two ways ; he has communicated other papers 

 to the Geological Society of Edintjurgh, on igneous rocks, on volcanic necks, on 

 fossiliferous Cambrian and Carboniferous rocks, and on glaciation, taking part also 

 in the Report of the British Association Committee on the Shelly Clays of Clava and 

 Kintyre, and in the work of the Inverness Society. 



Your association together has been productive of much good work, and we hope 

 that it may long continue. In handing the Proceeds of the WoUaston Fund to one 

 of you in 1888, Professor Judd remarked that as in your researches you had been so 

 constantly united, in the recognition of your services you should not be divided, and 

 that the name of Horne would appropriately follow that of Peach. On the present 



