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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Award of the Wollaston Donation-fund. 



The President next addressed Sir Roderick Mtjrchison, as the re- 

 presentative of M. Daubree, in the following terms : — 



Sir Roderick, — You are aware that the heqtiest of Dr. Wollaston 

 enables the Council each year to bestow a second mark of distinction, 

 but in another form, in order to show their sense of some valuable 

 service rendered to geological science, and generally to aid researches 

 in progress which involve considerable expense, — the sum at their 

 disposal being, however, by no means a measure of the value they 

 attach to the researches. On the present occasion, they have made 

 this award to M. Daubree, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at 

 Strasburg, Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in that Faculty, and 

 a Chief Engineer of Mines ; and I have to request that, as his 

 personal friend, you will convey to him this testimony of the 

 interest we take in those his researches, which have hitherto been 

 attended with very important results. 



The words of the award are these : — " to aid in the prosecution of 

 synthetic experiments similar to those of which he has recently 

 given an account, and which he has intimated his intention of con- 

 tinuing, with the object of throwing light upon metamorphic action." 



But it is not only as an eminent chemical philosopher that M. 

 Daubree has an extensive reputation in his own and in foreign 

 lands ; he has long made valuable contributions to geology by other 

 works. His publications date from the year 1836 ; since which time, 

 besides sixteen memoirs on the analysis of minerals and other 

 subjects of chemical geology, we have had from him a Geological 

 Map of the Department of the Lower Rhine, accompanied by an 

 octavo volume of 500 pages with 111 figures, descriptive of its 

 geology and mineralogy ; ' Observations on the Ancient and Modern 

 Alluvia of a part of the Basin of the Rhine ;' ' On the Erratic 

 Phenomena in the North of Europe and the Recent Movements of 

 the Land in Scandinavia ; ' ' Observations on the Quantity of Heat 

 employed to evaporate Water at the Surface of the Globe,' and 

 ' On the Dynamic Force of the Running Waters of the Continents ; ' 

 and no less than twenty minor memoirs on miscellaneous geo- 

 logical subjects, succeeded by his ' Observations on Metamorphism, 

 and Experimental Researches on some of the Agents which may 

 have produced it ; ' and lastly, his important work, a copy of which 

 he has recently presented to this Society, entitled, ' Studies and 

 Synthetic Experiments on Metamorphism,' to which I shall have 

 occasion to refer in the course of the address I am about to deliver. 



Sir Roderick Mtjrchison replied as follows : — 



Sir, — I have listened with great satisfaction to what you have 

 said (and so well said) in relation to the meritorious services of 

 M. Daubree, and I have a true satisfaction in being made the 

 medium of transmitting to him the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund. 



