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Award oe the Murchison Medals. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to Mr. B. N. 

 Peach, E.R.S., and another Murchison Medal to Mr. John Horne, 

 P.R.S.E., addressing them as follows : — 



Mr. Peach and Mr. Horne, — 



Since the years 1887 and 1888, in which the WoUaston Pund 

 was awarded to yon successively, you have continued your work in 

 Scottish Geology, taking a leading part in the latter year in that 

 Eeport on the Eecent Work of the Geological Survey in the 

 North-western Highlands, printed in our Journal, in which the new 

 view of the structure of that region is described in some detail. 

 You have also dealt with the Olenellus-zone in the same district, 

 and, ascending greatly in the geological scale, you have discussed 

 Glacial geology and have undertaken cavern-research. 



Mr. Peach, moreover, has done much palasontological work, having 

 long acted as PalEeontologist to the Scottish Survey, and it should not 

 be forgotten that he described the first fossil scorpion found in the 

 Silurian rocks of Scotland. He has also given us a paper on some 

 additions to the fauna of the Olenellus-zone, and has noticed a 

 radiolarian chert of Arenig age. 



Mr. Home, either alone or in conjunction with other colleagues, 

 has given us a paper on ' Poliated Granites and their Relations to 

 the Crystalline Schists,' showing an intimate relation between the 

 two rocks and that the foliation in the former may have originated 

 in at least two ways ; he has communicated other papers to the 

 Geological Society of Edinburgh, on igneous rocks, on volcanic necks, 

 on fossiliferous Cambrian and Carboniferous rocks, and on glacia- 

 tion, taking part also in the Report of the British Association 

 Committee on the High-level Shell-bearing Deposits of Clava and 

 Kintyre, and in the work of the Inverness Scientific Society. 



Your association together has been productive of much good work, 

 and we hope that it may long continue. In handing the Proceeds of 

 the Wollaston Pund to one of you in 1888, Prof. Judd remarked that 

 as in your researches you had been so constantly ijnited, in the re- 

 cognition of your services you should not be divided, and that the 

 name of Home would appropriately follow that of Peach. On the 

 present occasion, I am glad to say that we have allowed no interval 

 between the names, but have, still more appropriately, I think, than 

 before, coupled them together by awarding a Medal to each of you. 

 This Award seems to me to go very naturally with that of the 



