part 1] AlflSriYEESAIlY MEETINa MUECHISON FUND. xUil 



AWAED FEOM THE MUECHISOIS" GrEOLOaiCAL FuND. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Heebeet Boltox, M.Sc, the Peesident 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. BoLToi!^, — 



The Council has awarded to you the balance of the Murchison 

 Fund, in recognition of your contributions to our knowledge of the 

 stratigraphy and fauna of the Carboniferous System and of your 

 continued and successful conduct of one of the most progressive of 

 our provincial museums. As an authority on the insects of the 

 Carboniferous Period you are conspicuous. The results of your 

 labours, in the rescue, preservation, and description of these relics 

 of a long-bygone past, have proved, of supreme interest in estab- 

 lishing the great antiquity of some of the common insect-types of 

 the present day. Added to this, your studies of the faunal strati- 

 graph}^ of the Carboniferous rocks of the Bristol coalfield have 

 been of value, which has led to their publication in our Quarterly 

 Journal. For these reasons the Council has made this award to 

 you, in recognition of the work which you have done in the past, 

 and as an encouragement to others to emulate your example. 



AWAED EEOM THE LyELL GtEOLOOICAL FuiSTD. 



The Peesideis^t then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of 

 the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. Aethue Mac- 

 CONOCHIE and to Mr. Dayid Tait, to Dr. J. S. Flett for 

 transmission to the recipients, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Flett, — 



The balance of the Lyell Fund has been awarded in two moieties 

 to Mr. A. Macconochie and Mr. David Tait, in recognition of 

 their joint and individual contributions to the advancement of 

 geology. During his service as fossil-collector on the Geological 

 Survey of Scotland, Mr. Macconochie was the discoverer of one of 

 the most notable fossil localities in Scotland, where, at Glencart- 

 holm in Dumfriesshire, he found, in Lower Carboniferous shales, a 

 large number of new genera and species of plants, crustaceans, fishes. 



