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To numerous colleagues in the field you have brought the 

 indispensable aid of Palaeontology. They will join in welcoming 

 this award, and in expressing with me our best wishes for your 

 continued success in the work of investigation. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Prof. Robert 

 Broom, M.D., to Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Sec.G.S., for transmission 

 to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Smith Woodward, — 



The Council of the Geological Society have awarded a moiety of 

 the Balance of the Lyell Geological Fund to Prof. Robert Broom, in 

 recognition of his work on the Fossil Reptiles of the Karoo. 



While practising medicine in New South Wales, Prof. Broom 

 found time to make researches into the anatomy of the Monotremes 

 and Marsupials ; these led him to reflexions on the origin of the 

 Mammalia, and, in the hope of obtaining a solution of this 

 question, he left Australia for Cape Colony, settling in a district 

 where, while still engaged in the practice of his profession, he could 

 collect and study the reptilian remains of the Karoo. He has since 

 been able to devote himself almost entirely to this pursuit, and has 

 published a long series of memoirs which add largely to our 

 knowledge of the Fossil Reptilia. 



We trust that the Karoo has still many discoveries in store for 

 him, and that he may be destined to throw still further light on the 

 predecessors of the Mammalia. 



