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Me. "Waeington Smyth, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded one of its high 

 distinctions, the Murchison Medal and a part of the proceeds of the 

 Murchison Fund, to Prof. H. R. Goppert of Breslau, one of our 

 Foreign Members, in recognition of his labours in fossil botany. 



The very large number of papers, 245, recorded in the Scientific 

 List of the Royal Society under Prof. Goppert's name, testifies to the 

 zeal and success with which he has cultivated this branch of biology 

 during half a century. In asking you to transmit to him this Medal, 

 I would desire you to express to him the high estimation in which 

 this Society holds his work. 



Mr. Waeington Smyth, in reply, said : — 



I have been requested by Prof. Goppert to convey to the Society 

 his hearty thanks for the honour done him by the award of the 

 Medal founded by his lamented friend and correspondent Sir R. 

 Murchison. The announcement came at an opportune time, as 

 serving in some degree to raise his spirits when suffering from a 

 domestic bereavement. It happens also to have been coincident 

 with the completion of the great work on his favourite subject of 

 amber and its organic remains, first brought before this Society by 

 our Medallist in 1845. And when I remind our younger Fellows 

 that Goppert commenced writing on scientific subjects as far back 

 as 1828, and that the number of his works and papers amounts in 

 the Royal Society's Catalogue to 245, they will be apt to wonder 

 that he was not years ago selected as the recipient of the highest 

 honour the Society could bestow. 



Regretting deeply the circumstances which prevent Dr. Goppert 

 from being present on this occasion, I have great pleasure in re- 

 ceiving for him a mark of honour so well deserved by the veteran 

 geologist, whose name stands in so prominent a position in the spe- 

 cial branch of palseophytology. 



AWAED OF THE MlIECHlSON GEOLOGICAL FUND. 



The Peesi dent then handed to Prof. Moeeis, M.A., F.G.S., for 

 transmission to Mr. John Young, F.G.S., the balance of the pro- 

 ceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund, and said : — 



Professor Moeeis, — 



The Council of the Geological Society in awarding to Mr. John 

 Young, of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, the balance of the 

 proceeds of the Murchison Donation Fund, wishes to mark its appre- 



