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the course of your official duties on the Greological Survey and in 

 your free time, whereby our science has been ' most materially 

 advanced.' Some of the results have been published under your 

 name, notably the descriptions of several important deep borings ; 

 but still more are incorporated and acknowledged in the memoirs 

 and other writings of your colleagues, whom you have aided greatly 

 by the discovery, collection, and identification of fossils and by 

 your acute observations in stratigraphy. The quality of the work 

 that you have already done leads us to anticipate further additions 

 to our knowledge from that which you have now in hand, and from 

 any that jou may undertake in the future. The Council has 

 awarded to you a portion of the Lyell Fund, in recognition of the 

 value of your work and to encourage }^ou to advance. 





The President then presented the other moiety of the Balance 

 of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Stanley Smith, 

 D.Sc, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Stanley Smith, — 



The energy and ability that you have shown in the prosecution of 

 your stratigraphical and palseontological studies among the Lower 

 Carboniferous rocks have already produced most useful results. 

 Your report ' On the Carboniferous Limestone Formation of the 

 North of England, with special reference to the Coal Resources ' is 

 a good example of the adaptation of stratigraphical knowledge to 

 economic requirements ; your paper on ' The Faunal Succession 

 of the Upper Bernician ' marks an important step in the applica- 

 tion of modern palseontological method to these rocks ; and the 

 thoroughness and insight of your strictly palseontological work are 

 demonstrated in your contributions to this Society on genera of 

 Carboniferous Anthozoa. The Council has awarded to you a 

 portion of the Lyell Fund, in order to mark our appreciation of the 

 progress that you have Avon and to stimulate you to further 

 endeavour. 



