ANNIVER8ART MEETING MURCniSON GEOLOGICAL FUND. 4 I 



has already accomplished, and in the long and brilliant career which 

 we hope is still in store for him. 



Mr. Teall, in reply, read the following communication received 

 by him from Prof. Bkogger : — 



" I beg to express my hearty gratitude for the great and com- 

 pletely unexpected honour conferred upon me by the Council of the 

 Geological Society in the award of the Murchison Medal. 



" The Founder of this medal, almost half a century ago, classified 

 the Silurian rocks of the Christiania district, and pointed out their 

 relations to the corresponding strata of Great Britain ; so that, if 

 the subsequent investigations of Norwegian geologists have furnished 

 results of interest to the students of British Geology, this is only a 

 slight repayment of an old debt. 



" In ancient times the mountain-ranges of northern Great Britain 

 and ^^orway were probably connected, and in the Quaternary period 

 the Scandinavian ice-sheet stretched across to England and deposited 

 boulders of Norwegian rocks, some of which were derived from the 

 Christiania district. Now, in recent times science has rebuilt the 

 bridges which formerly connected the two countries, inhabited by 

 closely related peoples of the Germanic race. 



" It will be an object of especial interest to me to contribute, as 

 far as I am able, to the reconstruction of bonds of union between 

 Great Britain and Norway, in grateful remembrance of the benefits 

 which Norwegian geologists in general, and I myself in particular, 

 have derived from the celebrated Geological Society of London. 



" Allow me, in conclusion, to express the great satisfaction I feel 

 at receiving this honour during the Presidency of so eminent a 

 geologist as Dr. Archibald Geikie, who is personally acquainted 

 with the geology of Norway." 



Award of the Murchison Geological Fund. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund (awarded to the Eev. Eichard Baron, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., of Antananarivo) to Wm. TorLET, Esq., F.K.S., for trans- 

 mission to the recipient, saying : — 



Mr. TorLEY, — 



I have to request you to transmit to the Rev. E. Baron the Balance 



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