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her among us here to-day ; but she has been unavoidably pre- 

 vented from coming to London. In sending the Award to her, 

 you will be so good as to express to her our hope that she will 

 regard it as a token of the interest which we take in her work, and 

 as an encouragement to her to continue to devote herself to the 

 cause of science with the same skill and enthusiasm which have 

 hitherto so eminently distinguished her career. 



AWARD OF THE MUKCHISON GEOLOGICAL FUND. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Dr. Arthur Hutchinson, M.A., F.C.S., the 

 Ch airman addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Hutchinson, — 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 has this year been awarded to you, in acknowledgment of the 

 ability which the Council recognize in your published memoirs on 

 raineralogical subjects, and to encourage you in further work. We 

 especially desire to acknowledge the skill and industry displayed by 

 you in two important memoirs. Your paper on the Diathermancy 

 of Antimonite introduced and successfully applied a new method of 

 crystallographic investigation, wherein an opaque mineral is 

 examined between crossed nicols, by means of transmitted heat- 

 rays, corresponding to the usual optical examination of transparent 

 minerals. Your memoir on Stokesite records the discovery of a 

 new mineral, of which you found only a single crystal upon 

 a specimen of Cornish axinite. Your analysis proved it to be a 

 compound of most unusual type — a silicate containing tin. 



Awards from the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The Chairman then presented a moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Prof. Sidney Hugh 

 Reynolds, M.A., addressing him in the following words : — 



Prof. Reynolds, — 

 This Award is made to you in special recognition of the value of 



