part 1] ANNIVERSARY MEETING LYELL FUND, xlix 



Award from the Murchison Geological Fund. 



The President handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, awarded to Mrs. Eleanor Mary 

 Beid, B.Sc, to Dr. Herbert Lapworth, for transmission to the 

 recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Lapworth, — 



The Council has awarded to Mrs. Eleanor Beid the Murchison 

 Fund, in appreciation of the service which she has rendered by her 

 prolonged and skilful investigation of Tertiary and Pleistocene 

 plant-remains. That our ever-remembered friend and colleague, 

 Clement Beid, should have been cut off in the midst of his work 

 was a deplorable loss to Geological Science, but it is alleviating 

 to find that his labours are being continued by loving and capable 

 hands. During his lifetime Mrs. Beid participated actively in 

 all his later researches, and mastered the ingenious methods by 

 which so much new knowledge has been acquired. Its value is 

 apparent in numerous papers published at home and abroad, of 

 which she and her late husband were joint authors ; among them, 

 that on the Pre-Glacial Flora of Britain, published by the Linnean 

 Society (1908) ; that on the Lignite of Bovey Tracey, in the 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Boyal Society (1910) ; and 

 several studies of the Tegelen Flora published in Belgium and 

 Holland, including the fine Monograph on the Pliocene Floras of 

 the Dutch-Prussian Border prepared for the Geological Survey of 

 Holland (1915). 



This award is in recognition of the work that Mrs. Beid has 

 already done ; but the Council hopes that it may also serve as an 

 encouragement to her to continue her researches. 



Awards from the Lyell Geological Fund. 



In presenting a moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. John Pringle, the President 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Pringle, — 



For many years you have been steadily doing good work, both in 



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