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attendance at the meeting to-da}^, I feel sure that Dr. Hind will 

 return with renewed vigour to the geological work which has so 

 long been his recreation ; and he desires me to express his best 

 thanks to the Council of the Greological Societ}^ for the stimulating 

 Award with which the}^ have honoured him. 



Award of the Bigsby Medal. 



The Preside]S't then handed the Bigsby Medal, aAvarded to 

 Mr. Rx)bert G-eorge Carruthers, to Dr. A. Strahan, Director 

 of H.M. Geological Survey, for transmission to the recipient^ 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Strahan, — 



The Bigsby Medal has been awarded to Mr. Carruthers by the 

 Council as an acknowledgment of his eminent services to Scottish 

 Geology. As an officer of the Geological Survey he has investigated 

 considerable areas of the ancient rocks of the Highlands, the Carbon- 

 iferous of the Scottish Midlands, and the Old Red Sandstone of 

 Caithness ; and in each of these fields his labours have yielded 

 results which possess more than a local interest. On the side of 

 pure Palseontolog}^ he has made important additions to our 

 knowledge of the Corals, in particular by his memoir dealing 

 wdth the morphology of the Rugosa ; but especiall}'' are geologists 

 indebted to him for the use which he has made of the Corals in 

 the zonal subdivision of the Carboniferous succession. Of other 

 palaeontological contributions having a direct stratigraphical appli- 

 cation, I will recall only his discovery of a Pendleside fauna in 

 the Calciferous Sandstone Series of Lanarkshire and his reference 

 of the fish-fauna of Achanarras to its true position in the Old Red 

 Sandstone sequence. Among his services to Economic Oeology, 

 his revision of the memoir on the Oil- Shale Fields of the Lothian s 

 is especially worthy of mention. 



The Founder of this Medal, in fixing an age-limit for the 

 recipient, made clear his intention that regard should be had, not 

 only to performance in the past, but to promise for the future. 

 Confident that in this case the one is a sure guarantee of the other, 

 we ask him to receive this Award in the double acceptation of a 

 tribute and an encouragement. 



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