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Award oe the Murchison Medal. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to 

 Miss Gertrude L. Elles, D.Sc, addressing her as follows: — 



Dr. Gertrude Elles, — 



On receiving an Award from the Council some years ago you 

 expressed the hope of being able to do some further work. You 

 have since done much further work, and, in awarding the Mur- 

 chison Medal to yon, the Council desires to acknowledge the 

 importance and sustained efficiency of your efforts in advancing 

 Geological Science. 



Your skill as a field-geologist has been proved by your excellent 

 stratigraphical work, done partly in collaboration with your col- 

 leagues, Miss Wood and Miss Slater, on the Older Palaeozoic rocks 

 of Wales and the Welsh Border, a region presenting a severe test, 

 both physically and mentally, to the endurance of its investigators. 

 The results, embodied in successive papers published in our Journal 

 between 1896 and 1909, have served to clarify our knowledge of the 

 structure and rock-sequence of these difficult tracts, with which 

 the memory of the Pounder of this Medal is so closely associated. 



Besides rendering this great service in the field, you and }-our 

 co-worker, Dr. Ethel Wood (Mrs. Shakespear) have earned the 

 gratitude of stratigra pliers and palaeontologists alike by your patient 

 and exhaustive studies of the Graptolites. In the product of these 

 researches, published by the Palseontographical Society, your com- 

 bination of geological and biological knowledge has given us a 

 comprehensive Monograph, long desired and of extreme usefulness 

 to all investigators of the Older Palaeozoic rocks. 



Not only as an investigator, but as a teacher and inspirer of 

 others, your influence has been serviceable in the advancement 

 of our science. We know that your pursuits have been interrupted, 

 like those of most of us, by national duties arising out of the War, 

 but now that the stifling cloud is being dispelled, we shall look 

 expectantly for the results of the further researches which you 

 have undertaken. 



In handing you the Medal, allow me personally to congratulate 

 you on your past achievement. 



