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further research and, I hope, better work. My studies have been 

 a source of great pleasure to me, and I feel that there is still much 

 to be found out, even with regard to the genus MurcMsonia, to 

 which I have hitherto devoted the greater share of my attention.' 



Award of the Lyell Medal. 



The President then handed the Lyell Medal (awarded to 

 Dr. Wilhelm AVaagen, F.G.S., of Vienna) to Dr. W. T. Blanford 

 for transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Blanfoed, — 



Owing to ill-health, Dr. Waagen is unable to be present to 

 receive the Lyell Medal, with the sum of Twenty-five Pounds, 

 which the Council of the Geological Society have awarded to him, 

 in appreciation of his excellent Palseontological work. Just 20 years 

 ago (February, 1878) Dr. Waagen was a recipient of the Lyell 

 Fund, soon after his retirement, owing to ill-health, from the 

 Geological Survey of India ; and his work was, on that occasion, 

 referred to in terms of great admiration by the then President, 

 Prof. Martin Duncan, and by Dr. Oldham, who was deputed to 

 receive the Award on his behalf. Of the works published by 

 Dr. "Waagen, I may mention an important paper, ' On the Classifi- 

 cation of Upper Jurassic Beds ' (those of Southern England included) 

 in 1865, and in 1809 one on ' The Subdivisions of Ammonites,^ 

 of which full abstracts appeared in the Quarterly Journal of this 

 Society in 1865 and 1870. When in India he described the 

 ammonites of the Each Jurassic beds, and his great knowledge 

 of the Ammonitidae enabled him to work out the succession in 

 detail. Another most important work was his description of the 

 fossils from the Cambrian, Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic of 

 the Salt Kange in the Panjab, and his account of the geology in 

 the ' Palaeontologia Indica.' His untiring devotion to his work is 

 well known to all those who have been in any way associated with 

 him, and his careful and zealous labours have placed him in the 

 front rank of palaeontologists. I now ask you to be good enough 

 to forward to Dr. Waagen this further token of esteem, with every 

 expression of goodwill, from the Council of the Geological Society. 



