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Award op the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Pund to Mr. Arthur Walton Rowe, M.B., M.S., 

 of Margate, addressing him ag follows : — 



Dr. EowE, — 



It wiU, I am sure, be a source of gratification to you to be 

 ;associated with Prof. Barrels on the present occasion, for you have 

 done much to confirm and extend the principles which he first 

 -applied to the elucidation of the structure of the English Chalk. 

 We recognize, however, that, although your work has been of very 

 great stratigraphical importance, your main object is biological, and 

 that the task you have set yourself is that of working out the 

 evolution of organic forms during the "Upper Cretaceous Period. 



In your paper on Micraster you have set an example which I 

 trust will be followed. You have shown how it is possible to deal 

 with a vast mass of material, so as to bring out the main facts of 

 evolution, without burdening science with hosts of new names and 

 long lists of synonyms. 



By the application of the dental engine to the preparation, and of 

 microphotography to the illustration, of fossils, you have also 

 rendered signal service to science. 



The Council of the Geological Society, in making this Award, 

 have been desirous of expressing their gratitude to you for the work 

 that you have already accomplished, and their lively sense of favours 

 to come. 



Award of the Murchison Medal. 



In handing the Murchison Medal, awarded to Mr. Alfred John 

 Jukes-Browne, B.A., of H.M. Geological Survey, to Mr. W. 

 Whitaker for transmission to the recipient, the President addressed 

 him as follows: — 



Mr. Whitaker, — 



Mr. Jukes-Browne, whose absence we all deeply regret, has 

 ;aided the progress of geology in many ways. His numerous 

 ■writings on the Upper Cretaceous Rocks are too well known to 



