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should devote my time to literary work rather than to original 

 scientific research, yet I still hope to do something in the latter field. 

 Please accept, Sir, on the behalf of the Council, my thanks for the 

 mark of distinction that they have bestowed upon me. 



Award of the Mijrchison ITedal. 



In handing the Murchison Medal, awarded to Professor W. C. 

 Brogger, of Christiania, to J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.E,.S., for 

 transmission to the recipient, the President spoke as follows : — 



Mr. Teall, — 



The Council has awarded the Murchison Medal to Professor W. 

 C. Progger, of Christiania, and in asking 3'ou to transmit it to him 

 I will request you also to convey to him an expression of the high 

 estimation in which we hold his researches among the older rocks 

 of Scandinavia. He is remarkable among the geologists of Europe 

 for the great range of his acquirements. If we were to read only 

 his descriptions of the Silurian fauna of Southern Norway we should, 

 donbtless, believe him to be essentially a palaeontologist. If we 

 looked over his maps and sections of the Christiania district, we 

 should think of him rather as an admirable stratigrapher and car- 

 tographer. If, again, we began with his account of the eruptive 

 rocks and their zone of contact-metamorphism, we should conclude 

 that his chief studies must have lain in microscopic and chemical 

 petrography, of w^hich he is so accomplished a master. Or, lastly, 

 if we knew him only by such essays as his late paper on garnets, 

 we should regard him as preeminently a mineralogist, gifted with 

 rare originality. He has swept a full chord on the geological lyre, 

 and every note sounds rich and true. 



It gives me personally an especial pleasure to be the intermediary 

 in conveying the award of ihe Council, for I have had the advantage 

 of being conducted by Professor Brogger over some of his classic 

 ground around Christiania, and I know from my own experience 

 how accurate and exhaustive is the work ; how courteous, genial, 

 and helpful the man. He will, I trust, receive this Medal, bearing 

 the likeness and the name of one of the great masters of British 

 Geology, who was also a pioneer in the geology of Norway, as a 

 pledge of our esteem and sympathy with him in the great work he 



