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either in themselves or in their component parts, are so minute as to require the 

 microscope for theii- investigation. My experience in America taught me that in order 

 to make fresh discoveries in paUieontology, it was necessary to take into the field a 

 good lens, as well as a hammer, so as to find those little fossils which, on account of 

 their smaUness, are passed over by other observers ; but I did not expect that in this 

 country, where every yard of ground almost had been subjected to scrutiny, much 

 remained for discovery, even amongst these small objects. I am very glad to find 

 myself disappointed in this belief ; for the little which I have explored as yet in this 

 country convinces me that in this line of research there is abundant work yet to be 

 done ; and stimulated by the mark of your encouragement which I have this day 

 received, it will be my earnest effort and my hope, by patient study in this promising 

 field, to contribute still further to the extension of the boundaries of science which it 

 is the object of our Society to advance. 



The President uext handed the balance of the proceeds of the 

 Murchison Donation to Prof. T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.R.S., Sec. G.S., 

 for transmission to Prof. T. Eupert Jones, F.R.S., T.G.S., and ad- 

 dressed him as follows : — 



Professor Bi>nnet, — The Council of the Geological Society has no ordinary 

 pleasure in handing to you for Prof. Eupert Jones, F.E.S., the balance of the 

 Murchison Donation Fund in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered 

 to special branches of geological and palteontological science. His contributions to 

 the history and paleontology of the Lower Invertebrata, especially the Ehizopoda 

 and Ostracoda, have won for him European and world-wide fame. He contributed 

 nearly 100 papers to various magazines and societies, especially the "Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History," between the years 1859 and 1880, and, with few 

 exceptions, all bearing upon his favoiuite studies. In three of his many important 

 communications he was associated with Mr. W. K. Parker, F.E.S. ; and I may 

 here mention his joint papers, " On the Nomenclature of the Foraminifera," 

 " On the Ehizopodal Fauna of the Mediterranean compared with that of the 

 Italian and some other Tertiary Deposits," and "On the Foraminifera from 

 the Bryozoan Limestone of Mount Gambler, South Australia," all of the 

 utmost value for the history of these minute organisms. I can only notice, from 

 want of time, four or five papers by himself: — 1 "On the oldest known Fossil 

 (Eozoon eanaclense) of the Laurentian Eocks of Canada," etc. ; 2. "On Eecent and 

 Fossil Bivalve Entomostraca" ; 3. "On the Swiss Jurassic Foraminifera"; 4. 

 "On the Entomostraca of the Carboniferous Eocks of Scotland" ; 5. " On the 

 range in time of the Foraminifera." I may refer also to his completion and editing 

 of Lartet and Christie's ' Eeliquise Aquitanicse, ' ranging from 1865 to 1875, to his 

 new edition of Dixon's 'Sussex,' to his assisting in editing the ' Micrographic 

 Dictionary,' to his editing the ' Arctic Admiralty Manual for the Nares Expedition 

 in 1875,' to his famous Croydon Lecture, and to that most useful thougli small 

 book, ' Syllabus, or Heads of Lectures for the use of Lecturers or Teachers,' by 

 himself and Prof. Morris. Other subjects have likewise received his attention, as 

 shown by his papers on the Primeval Elvers of England, and on the Diamond 

 Fields of South Africa amongst many others. Fifteen of his papers have appeared 

 in the Quarterly Journal of our Society. For such patient, good, and long-continued 

 work, most of it without remuneration, the Council deem him eminently worthy of 

 the award they offer for his acceptance. 



Prof. Bonney, in reply, said : —Mr. President, — It is with great regret that I find 

 myself acting to-day as deputy for Prof. Eupert Jones, because his absence is caused, 

 not by ofiicial duties or engagements yet more pleasant, but by rather serious illness. 

 I am, however, glad to have the opportunity of expressing my sympathy with him 

 under treatment which appears to me unjust,^ my appreciation of him as a geologist, 

 and my esteem for him as a man, especially for the reason that he has always been so 

 ready to place his great stores of knowledge at the service of younger students. 

 I proceed, then, to read the reply which he has entrusted to me : — " Feb. 17, 1882. 



"Mr. President, — This unexpected honour awarded by the Council of the 

 Geological Society to a worker among Foraminifera and Entomostraca and a teacher 

 of geology among the rising generation, I venture to regard rather as an incentive to 



^ This remark of Prof. Bonney's is in allusion to the abolition of the Chair of 

 Geology in the Eoyal Military and Staff College, Sandhurst. — Edit. Geol. Mag. 



