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those present. These communications amply testify to his ability to 

 carry on explorations in difficult regions, where strength of purpose 

 and special training are indispensable to success. Other geological 

 questions have also occupied his attention ; and I may here mention 

 the paper by him in the Geological Magazine on 'Magnesian Lime- 

 stone Concretions ' as an interesting contribution to a vexed question, 

 and his paper and reports on Carboniferous Fossils, the result of much 

 labour among the Carboniferous rocks of the North of England. The 

 Council, in making him this Award, hope that it may act as a stimulus 

 to further researches in those fields in which he has already shown 

 such marked ability, and that he will accept it also as a token of 

 appreciation for what he has already accomplished. 



Mr. Strahan, on behalf of the recipient, read the following 

 reply :— 



' Mr. President, — 



In thanking the Council of this Society for the honour which they 

 have done me in awarding to me the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Fund, I cannot but feel that they have taken far too 

 generous a view of any value which my work in the past may 

 possess. 



' Some years ago, it occurred to me that the Carboniferous beds in 

 Britain might be capable of subdivision into life-zones, similar to 

 those already established in Belgium and elsewhere ; but, after 

 several years' work, I realized that the task was much too great for 

 the time at my disposal, and I am glad to say that the work is 

 now being carried on by a Committee of the British Association. 



* My last two summers have been devoted to work in the far North ; 

 and the kind encouragement and assistance which I receive to-day 

 will be a great incentive to the continuance of that work in the 

 future.' 



Award of the Murchison Medal. 



The President then handed the Murchison Medal (awarded to 

 Mr. Thomas F. Jamieson, F.G.S.) to Mr. Horace B. Woodward, ior 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Horace Woodward, — 



The Murchison Medal, with the sum of Ten Guineas, has this year 



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