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allow me to be present at the Annual Meeting of the Society. It 

 has also prevented me from taking any part in the pleasant Evening 

 Meetings, which I regret even still more. I think I have been 

 present on only one occasion, and that was before I became a Fellow 

 of the Society, which is a good long while ago . 



' It is gratifying, however, to find that, although so far away, 

 and so little known personally to the Council of the Society, they 

 have not only kept me in remembrance, but have done me the 

 honour of awarding to me the Murchison Medal. This I shall value 

 the more as it recalls the recollection of the warm-hearted Sir 

 Roderick, from whom I received much kind attention many years 

 ago. Although then a young man, and quite a stranger to him., I 

 found no one more ready to help me in every way that he thought 

 would be useful. This was a bright feature in his character, which 

 struck me much at the time, and has always kept his memory 

 green in the breast of the present recipient of his Medal.' 



I may add that I am sure that Mr. Jamieson will be gratified 

 by the kindly remarks which you have made in reference to his 

 work. 



AWARB OF THE MuRCHISON GEOLOGICAL FuND. 



In handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geolo- 

 gical Fund (awarded to Miss J. Donald, of Carlisle) to Mr. E. T. 

 Newton for transmission to the recipient, the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. jS^ewton, — 



On one occasion only has the Geological Society previously granted 

 an Award from its Funds to a lady. This was in the year 1893, 

 when Miss Eaisin, so well known to us by her petrographical and 

 stratigraphical work, was the recipient. On the present occasion a 

 lady who has attained distinction as a palaeontologist has been 

 selected by the Council to receive an award from the Murchison Fund, 

 and the Fellows generally will, I feel sure, believe that in making 

 this Award to Miss J. Donald the Council has acted wisely and 

 justly. In the Quarterly Journal of this Society are five important 

 papers by Miss Donald. The first, in the year 1887, ' Notes upon 

 some Carboniferous Species of Murchisonia,' was followed in 1889 by 

 ' Descriptions of some New Species of Carboniferous Gasteropoda ' ; 



