part 1] ANNIVERSARY MEETING — LYELL FUND. xlix 



AWAED FKOM THE MURCHISON GEOLOGICAL FUND. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 •Geological Fund to Thomas Crook, Assoc. R.Coll.Sci., the 

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Crook, — 



In awarding to you the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund the Council wishes to recognize the value of your 

 contributions to Petrology and Mineralogy, more particularly with 

 reference to the mechanical analysis of rocks and also to the 

 mineralogy of the British Colonie^. The former of these subjects 

 engaged your attention while you were at the Royal College 

 of Science in Dublin, and you have since pursued it with success, 

 especially in perfecting the use of the electro-magnet for the 

 separation of minerals. As a member of the staff of the Imperial 

 Institute you have during recent years made many additions to 

 our knowledge of the minerals of the more remote parts of the 

 British Empire, the results of your work appearing partly in 

 papers published in your own name, but largely in the pages 

 of the Bulletin of the Institute. Your petrological publications 

 include some interesting observations on ' Dedolomitization ' and 

 a suggestive paper on ' The Genetic Classification of Rocks and 

 Ore-Deposits.' In addition, you have collaborated with Prof. 

 Cole in an important memoir on a collection of rock-specimens 

 dredged off the coast of Ireland, showing how these may be 

 made to yield information concerning the submarine geology of 

 the British seas. This Award, so well deserved, will, I hope, be 

 an encouragement to vou in your future work, whether official 

 or extra-official. 



Awards from the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The President then presented a moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Vincent Charles 

 Illing, M.A., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Illing, — 



The Council has awarded to you one moiety of the Balance 

 •of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, to mark its appre- 

 ciation of your admirable work among the Lower Palaeozoic rocks 



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