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and political, activity which exists between the English-speaking 

 peoples on both sides of the Atlantic. It is significant that of the 

 two American Institutions in which Dr. Walcott has served as 

 Secretary, the Smithsonian was founded by an Englishman, the 

 •Carnegie by a Scotsman. . The partnership in arms, which now as 

 never before unites our peoples, cannot fail in the coming years to 

 strengthen and to extend that scientific comradeship of which your 

 tribute to Dr. Walcott is a signal recognition. 



• Award of the Murchison Medal. 



In handing the Murchison Medal, awarded to Joseph Burr 

 Tyrrell, M.A., to the Hon. Sir George Halsey Perley, 

 K.C.M.G., High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada, for 

 transmission to the recipient, the President addressed him as 

 follows : — 



Sir George Perley, — 



The Murchison Medal has been awarded to Mr. Joseph Burr 

 Tyrrell in recognition of the value of his many services to 

 Geological Science. In the breadth of their scope, in the pioneer 

 element which has so largely entered, in the practical benefits 

 which have often followed, those services may stand as typical of 

 Canada's contribution to Geology. 



During more than thirty years Mr. Tyrrell has been frequently 

 -engaged in exploring wide tracts of the little-known Barren Lands 

 of Northern Canada, making prolonged journeys of a kind 

 which demands no ordinary resolution and endurance. Besides 

 thus adding largely to geographical knowledge by his own efforts, 

 he has done much to make known the results of earlier explorers 

 in the North. While helping very materially to develop the 

 mineral resources of the Dominion, he has at the same time 

 gathered much valuable information touching the older rocks of 

 the region ; and, uniting in his own person the geologist and the 

 prospector, he has often shown by example how science and 

 enterprise may go hand in hand, to the great advantage of both. 



On the side of pure science, however, his most notable researches 

 have been in the domain of Glacial Geology, where his extensive 

 acquaintance with the country has enabled him to arrive at con- 

 clusions of a large order. Prior to 189-1 it was generally held 



