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Wooflward, F.E.S., for transmission to Dr. Ferdinand Eonier, 

 F.M.G.S., of Breslau, and addressed him as follows: — 



Dr. Woodward,— The Council has awarded to Dr. Ferdinand Romer the Murchison 

 Medal and a sum of Ten Guineas from the Donation Fund. His life-long and un- 

 wearied labours in the service of our science have long since made his name familiar 

 to his fellow-workers. When I state that the Royal Society Catalogue, published 

 now moi-e than eleven years since, records the titles of 122 separate memoirs written 

 by him, when I mention his other important works, such as that on the Chalk For- 

 mation of Texas, on the Silurian Fauna of Tennessee, on the Geology of Upper 

 Silesia, and the " Lethsea Geognostica," I have said enough to prove that this 

 memorial of an illustrious geologist could not well have been bestowed on a more 

 illustrious recipient. In transmitting it to Dr. Romer, be so kind as to express our 

 regret that the distance and the season of the year have deprived us of the pleasure 

 of his presence on this occasion. 



Dr. AYooDWARD expressed his pleasure at being deputed to receive this Medal for 

 Dr. Ferdinand Romer, from whom he had received the following letter : — 



" Mr. President, — I am deeply sensible of the honour which you and the Council 

 of the Geological Society have conferred upon me in presenting me with the 

 Murchison Medal. 



" I very much regret my inability to be present in order to receive this valuable 

 mark of appreciation from your hands, and to express personally to you my sincere 

 thanks for tliis high mark of recognition which the Society has bestowed on me. 



"It is particularly gratifying to me that it is the Murchison Medal which you 

 have been pleased to confer upon me, because the greater part of my scientific work 

 has been directed to the study of those ancient rocks, the natural order of which was 

 first recognized by the comprehensive genius of its founder, Sir Roderick Mm-chison. 



" Ferd. Romer."' 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Mr, Horace B. Woodward, F.G.S., the 

 President addressed him as follows: — 



Mr. Horace B. Woodward, — The balance of the proceeds of the Murchison 

 Donation Fund has been awarded to you in recognition of the good service which 

 you have already rendered to geology, especially by your work among the later 

 deposits of the eastern counties, and to aid you in further researches. But the 

 excellent papers which you have written, in addition to the work done by you as a 

 member of the Geological Survey, do not constitute your only claim to our recog- 

 nition. You have made use of the opportunity of your official position to promote 

 a love of science among those who live in our eastern counties, and we are indebted 

 to yon for that admirable volume •' The Geology of England and Wales," which, though 

 in one sense a compilation, is such a one as only a skilled geologist could produce. 



Mr. Woodward, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — I am highly honoured by this 

 award of the Council which you have now placed in my hards A little more than 

 twenty-one years ago I commenced geological life in the service of this Society, as 

 Assistant in the Library and Museum at Somerset House ; and I feel much indebted 

 to that period for acquaintance with many geologists, who, for the sake of my father, 

 extended the hand of friendship to me ; and I am likewise indebted to the duties I 

 had then to perform for a knowledge (and I may say a love) of books, which perhaps 

 influenced the production of that volume about which you have spoken so kindly. 



While labour is in most cases its own reward, it is a great satisfaction and a great 

 encouragement to be told that one s work is useful by those who are best qualified 

 to judge. 



The President next presented the Lyell Medal to Professor H. 

 G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Seeley, — The Council has awarded to you the Lyell Medal and a grant 

 of £40 in recognition of your investigations into the anatomy and classification of 

 the Fossil Reptilia, especially the Dinosauria. Not that you have limited yourself 

 to this field of research ; your papers on Emys and Pscphnphorus, on Mignlomis and 

 British Fossil Cretaceous Birds, on Zeuglodon, and on remnins of iMammalia from 

 Stonesfield, prove your extensive knowledge of vertebrate palaeontology, as your 



