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of South Australia in 1901. In addition to his researches upon 

 these extraordinarily interesting episodes in Palaeozoic times, 

 Mr. Howchin has done much to elucidate the complicated structure 

 of Mount Lofty, and the general physiography of South Australia. 

 In making the Award, which I now beg you to forward to him, 

 the Council desire to express their sense of the great importance 

 to Geological Science of the work that he has done in far-distant 

 Australia. 



In presenting the other Moiety of the Proceeds of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund to Mr. John Postlethwaite, F.G-.S., the 

 President addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Postlethwaite, — 



For more than forty years your name has been associated with 

 the geology of the Lake District, for it Avas in 1874 that you read 

 a paper at Keswick on the Mines & Minerals, which was destined 

 to develop into the useful and beautifully-illustrated book, re-issued 

 in third edition only last year. Though minerals and ores have 

 claimed much of your attention, the igneous rocks with which they 

 are so often associated have been studied in the field and described 

 by you in the pages of our Quarterly Journal. To you also is due 

 the credit of having helped to clear away the obscurity attaching 

 to the age of the Skiddaw Slates by your indefatigable and suc- 

 cessful search for fossils. 



The award, which it is my privilege to hand to you, has been 

 allotted to you by the Council in testimony of their appreciation of 

 your work in the classic ground of the English Lake District. 



