Vol. 70.] A>~XIYERSARY MEETING — LYELL FU>"D. lvii 



AWABD FROYC THE MuRCHISOX GEOLOGICAL FUXD. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Mr. Frederick Nairx Haward, the Presi- 

 dent addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Haward, — 



At a time when enthusiasm in the pursuit of proofs of human 

 workmanship on flints has threatened to outrun discretion, you have 

 engaged in a study of the various forms of fracture which can 

 result from natural causes, in order to demonstrate that much of 

 the chipping attributed by some observers to Man may have been 

 due to natural agencies. Your minute and unbiassed investiga- 

 tions cannot fail to exercise a useful influence on the treatment 

 of this speculative subject. In handing to you the Murchison 

 Geological Fund, awarded to you by the Council of this Society, I 

 express the hope that you will regard it as a mark of appreciation 

 of what you have already done, and as an encouragement to con- 

 tinue vour researches. 



Awards from the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The President then handed a Moiety of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to the Rev. Walter Howchix, 

 F.G.S., to Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S., for transmission to tin- 

 recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Watts, — 



Before leaving this country, upwards of twenty years ago, 

 Mr. Howchin had already done useful work on the Carboniferous 

 foraminifera. On his arrival in Australia, he continued his 

 studies on these organisms in the Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Permo- 

 Carboniferous rocks. It was during the prosecution of his researches 

 among the Permo- Carboniferous glacial deposits that he came upon 

 widespread ' tillites ' at a horizon lower than that of the Olenellus 

 and Salterella Beds of the Lower Cambrian. The glacial phenomena 

 presented by these rocks were first described in detail in a convincing 

 paper laid b} T him before this Society in 1908, although a preliminary 

 note on their existence had been read before the Boyal Society 



