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of the subterranean as well as the superficial geology of that area. 

 In your earlier contributions you examined the origin of the exist- 

 ing river-system of Suffolk, and also endeavoured to define the 

 limits of extension of the Lower Grlacial deposits of Norfolk into 

 the more southerly county. You have also made instructive re- 

 searches into the lithology and mineralogy of many of the sedi- 

 mentary deposits of East Anglia. In a paper read before this 

 Society two years ago you employed this method, in conjunction 

 with stratigraphical observation, in a comprehensive study of the 

 Lower Eocene strata of the area, and drew interesting Conclusions 

 concerning the geography of the period and even the tectonics of 

 the country. Your more recent investigations concerning sands 

 suitable for glass-making have a direct practical application, of 

 much importance at the present time. 



Some jmrt of your work has been the outcome of a grant from 

 the Daniel Pidgeon Fund, and the good use which you made of 

 that opportunity assures us that you will regard the present Award 

 as an incentive to new enterprises in the service of Geology. 



Award from the Murchiso?^ Geological Fund. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, awarded to Dr. William Mackie, 

 to Dr. W. T. Gordon, for transmission to the recipient, addressing 

 him as follows : — 



Dr. Gordon, — 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 has been awarded by the Council to Dr. Mackie in recognition 

 of his contributions to the geology of Northern Scotland. A 

 skilled chemist as well as a keen petrologist, he has utilized in 

 this way his leisure as a medical practitioner during the last 

 twenty years. 



By his investigation of the sandstones of Eastern Moray he has 

 thrown light, both on the source of the material and on the climatic 

 conditions which prevailed during its deposition. In the cement 

 of these sandstones he detected traces of the heavy metals, and his 

 enquiry led to the discovery in quantity of barvtes and fluor in the 



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