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of Warwickshire. Since its discovery by Prof. Charles Lapworth in 

 1882, the Cambrian inlier of Nuneaton has claimed the attention 

 of numerous geologists ; but it was reserved for } r ou to show 

 how complete a development of the whole Cambrian succession is 

 there exhibited. In a paper communicated to this Society in 

 1914 you mapped out the various subdivisions which you had 

 recognized, and correlated them with the parallel sequence in 

 other areas. Of the Abbey Shales, representing in small compass, 

 a large portion of the Middle Cambrian, you made a full paleeon- 

 tological study, describing critically the rich trilobitic fauna and 

 making known a number of new species. That this important 

 memoir was professedly only ft first instalment, warrants us in 

 hoping that you will find in the present Award stimulus to the 

 completion of your projected work. 



In presenting the other moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds 

 of the Lyell Geological Fund to William Kingdom Spencee, 

 M.A., the President addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Spencee. — 



A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geolo- 

 gical Fund has been awarded to you by the Council as an acknoAv- 

 ledgment of the value of your palseontological work. 



Starting with the advantage of a zoological training at Oxford,, 

 you have devoted the intervals of a busy official life to researches 

 in the palaeontology of the Echinoderms. You began by applying 

 Prof. Sollas's method of serial sections to elucidate the structure of 

 the Palaeozoic forms Palcdodiscus and Agelacrinus. You then 

 de\^oted some years to the study of the Cretaceous starfishes, the 

 results of which appeared in a Monograph upon the British 

 examples and a paper, contributed to the Royal Society, upon ' The 

 Evolution of the Cretaceous Asteroidea.' Therein you showed,, 

 among other conclusions, that the starfishes are of zonal im- 

 portance, and that different lineages were evolved along parallel 

 lines. More recently you have been investigating with great skill 

 that difficult group of fossils, the Palaeozoic Asterozoa, and your 

 Monograph, not yet completed, has already brought to light many 

 new facts relative to the morphology and phylogeny of those early 

 Echinoderms. It is our hope that this recognition may encourage 

 you to persevere in the same path. 



