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of the proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund, in testimony of 

 the interest taken by the Council in the geological work which, araid 

 so many discouragements, he is carrying on in Madagascar. We 

 desire him to accept this Award as a mark of our hearty sympathy 

 and of our wish to aid him in his researches. 



Mr. ToPLEY, in reply, said : — 



Mr. Pkesident, — 



On behalf of Mr. Baron, who is now in Madagascar, I beg to thank 

 the Council and yourself for the honour conferred upon him in the 

 award of the Murchison Fund. As a Missionary in an area as yet 

 but little known, Mr. Baron has exceptional opportunities for original 

 research, and that he has not neglected those opportunities is evident 

 from his papers already read to this Society and to the Linnean 

 Society. The Award now made will, I am sure, be an incentive to 

 further work in a most promising field of research. 



Award of the Lyell Medal. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Prof. T. McKen^ny Httghes, 

 F.U.S., the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Hughes, — 



The Lyell Medal has this year been adjudged by the Council to 

 you in appreciation of the value of your investigations in various 

 departments of Geology, especially among the older rocks. Your 

 researches in Caernarvonshire and Anglesey formed the starting- 

 point of those later enquiries which have done so much to clear up 

 the earlier chapters of the geological history of Wales. You have 

 not confined yourself, however, to the rocks of any one system or 

 period, but have ranged freely from Archaean gneiss to raised beach, 

 hovering for a moment here and resting a little there, generally 

 critical, almost always suggestive, and with that happy faculty of 

 enthusiasm which, reacting on younger minds, " allures to older 

 worlds, and leads the way." 



As I place this Medal in your hands I cannot but recall the days 

 of our early friendship, now faded so far into the dim past of life, 

 when, as colleagues in the Geological Survey, we used to attend the 

 meetings of this Society in Somerset House, taking seats on a back 



