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are still engaged in working out the geology of India, whilst to myself 

 the Medal is an unexpected recompense for many years of laborious 

 exploration. 



AWAKD OE THE WOLLASTON DONATION FtTND. 



The President then handed the balance of the proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Prof. J. W. Jtjdd, F.K.S., Sec.G.S., 

 for transmission to Prof. John Milne, F.G.S., of Tokio, japan, and 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Prof. Judd, — 



The Council, in bestowing upon Mr. Milne the balance of the pro- 

 ceeds of the Wollaston Fund, wishes to mark its appreciation of the 

 importance of his investigations into the phenomena of earthquakes, 

 to which he has devoted so much time and attention during his resi- 

 dence in Japan. 



In handing to you this cheque for transmission to him, I would 

 ask you to convey to him the hopes of the Council that this award 

 may assist him in continuing those inquiries in Seismology which 

 he has proved himself so well able to undertake. 



Professor Jtjdd, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I feel sure that the pleasure with which my friend Prof. Milne will 

 hear in his distant home of this award of the Council of this Society 

 will be enhanced when he learns the kind and appreciative terms 

 in which you have spoken of his work. When Mr. Milne left 

 England last year, it was with the intention of visiting the several 

 Italian observatories in which investigations on those minute earth- 

 tremors which are now attracting so much attention from geolo- 

 gists, are carried on. In Japan Prof. Milne hopes to have ample 

 opportunities for applying these new modes of investigation ; and I 

 have no doubt that the award from the Wollaston Fund which has 

 been made to him this day will be of material assistance to him in 

 carrying on these important observations. 



A WARD OE THE MlJECHISON MEDAL. 



In handing the Murchison Medal to Mr. Warington W. Smyth, 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., for transmission to Prof. Helnrich Eobert 

 Goppert, F.M.G.S., of Breslau, the President said : — 



