﻿part 1] ANNIVERSARY MEETING MURCHISON MEDAL. xli 



aiding the progress of our science, and pre-eminently one whom 

 the Geological Society delights to honour. 



The Council will be glad if you will convey this medal to 

 Dr. Karpinsky as a token of its esteem and admiration, with an, 

 expression of its best wishes. 



Councillor Nabokoff replied in the following words : — 

 Mr. President, — 



Please accept my sincere thanks for the honour that you have 

 done me in asking me to come here to-day and to convey to 

 Dr. Karpinsky, with the expression of your good wishes, the 

 Wollaston Medal which the Council of the Greological Society has 

 awarded to him. I feel certain that this great distinction will be 

 deeply appreciated by the recipient of the medal, as well as by the 

 Russian Geological Committee as a high tribute to their Director. 

 My distinguished friend, Dr. H. H. Hayden, Director of the 

 Greological Survey of India, who crossed the Pamirs from India 

 into Russian Turkestan a few months before the war, has often 

 expressed to me the wish and hope that the highly interesting and 

 valuable scientific researches, which have been carried out on both 

 sides of the Pamirs by the British and Russian geologists, may be 

 linked up and conducted on a basis of firmer and more complete 

 unity and coordination. I venture to avail myself of this 

 opportunity of expressing, on behalf of my countrymen, the same 

 wish, and the confident hope that the ties of friendship which now 

 unite Britain and Russia may extend from the fields of battle to 

 the lofty peaks of science and enlightenment. 



Award of the Murchison Medal. 



The President then handed the Murchison Medal, awarded to 

 Dr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S., to Dr. F. L. Kitchin. for trans- 

 mission to the recipient, and addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Kitchin, — 



The Council has awarded to Dr. Robert Kidston the Murchison 

 Medal as a mark of its appreciation of his numerous and valuable 

 contributions to our knowledge of fossil plants, especially those of 

 the Carboniferous Period. For nearly forty years he has devoted 



