44 troceedings of the geological society. 



Award of the Lyell Geological Fctnd. 



The Presideis^t then handed one half of the Balance of the Lyell 

 Geological Fund, awarded to Dr. C. J. Forsyth-Major, of Florence, 

 to Dr. H. WooDWARi), F.R.S., for transmission to the recipient, and 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Woodward, — 



In requesting you to transmit to Dr. Forsyth-Major one moiety of 

 the Balance of the Lyell Geological Fund, I wish to exx)re8s the 

 Council's appreciation of his researches and its hope that he will 

 continue them. He has done much to increase our knowledge of 

 the Pliocene Mammalia of the Yal d'Arno, and he has recently 

 extended his explorations among the younger Tertiary deposits of 

 the Eastern Mediterranean. 



Dr. Woodward, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



On behalf of Dr. C. J. Forsyth-Major, I have to acknowledge the 

 honour conferred upon him by the Council of this Society in awarding 

 him a moiety of the Lyell Fund. The work to which Dr. Forsyth- 

 Major has devoted his life so entirely accords with the researches 

 and labours of Sir Charles Lyell that I cannot doubt the appro- 

 priateness of this Award. 



Dr. Forsyth-Major has devoted many years to the elucidation of 

 the Pleistocene and Pliocene mammalian faunas of the Val d'Arno 

 and Northern Italy, and his numerous memoirs attest the value and 

 accuracy of his work. Lately he has devoted two years to the 

 exploration of the Pliocene fauna of the Island of 8amos, and has 

 obtained thence two very important collections (at present only 

 partially examined) — one now in the Geneva Museum, the other in 

 the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Bead. Among 

 these are a large number of forms specifically identical with the 

 mammals from the equivalent deposits of Pikermi in Attica, Baltavar 

 in Hungary, and Maragha in Persia ; and also several new types of 

 much interest as showing a former wider distribution for existing 

 forms. 



It is Dr. Forsyth-Major's hope to spend the early summer months 

 in London, to complete his descriptions of these fossil remains, which 

 your Award will doubtless assist him in doing. 



