﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  MEETING 
  MERCHISON 
  FUND. 
  4 
  1 
  

  

  day 
  received, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  my 
  earnest 
  effort 
  and 
  my 
  hope, 
  by 
  patient 
  

   study 
  in 
  this 
  promising 
  field, 
  to 
  contribute 
  still 
  further 
  to 
  the 
  ex- 
  

   tension 
  of 
  the 
  boundaries 
  of 
  the 
  science 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  our 
  

   Society 
  to 
  advance. 
  

  

  Award 
  of 
  the 
  Merchison 
  Geological 
  Fend. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  next 
  handed 
  the 
  balance 
  of 
  the 
  proceeds 
  of 
  the 
  

   Murchison 
  Donation 
  Fund 
  to 
  Prof. 
  T. 
  G. 
  Bonney, 
  M.A., 
  F.R.S., 
  

   Sec. 
  G.S., 
  for 
  transmission 
  to 
  Prof. 
  T. 
  Rupert 
  Jones, 
  F.R.S., 
  F.G.S., 
  

   and 
  addressed 
  him 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Bonnet, 
  — 
  

  

  The 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  has 
  no 
  ordinary 
  pleasure 
  

   in 
  handing 
  to 
  you 
  for 
  Prof. 
  Rupert 
  Jones, 
  F.R.S., 
  the 
  balance 
  of 
  

   the 
  Murchison 
  Donation 
  Fund 
  in 
  recognition 
  of 
  the 
  valuable 
  services 
  

   he 
  has 
  rendered 
  to 
  special 
  branches 
  of 
  geological 
  and 
  pakeonto- 
  

   logical 
  science. 
  His 
  contributions 
  to 
  the 
  history 
  and 
  palaeontology 
  

   of 
  the 
  Lower 
  Invertebrata, 
  especially 
  the 
  Rhizopoda 
  and 
  Ostracoda, 
  

   have 
  won 
  for 
  him 
  European 
  and 
  world-wide 
  fame. 
  Besides 
  several 
  

   important 
  memoirs 
  in 
  the 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  Palseontographical 
  Society, 
  

   and 
  his 
  share 
  in 
  the 
  Treatise 
  on 
  Foraminifera 
  published 
  by 
  the 
  Ray 
  

   Society, 
  he 
  contributed 
  nearly 
  100 
  papers 
  to 
  various 
  magazines 
  

   and 
  societies, 
  especially 
  the 
  'Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History,' 
  between 
  the 
  years 
  1859 
  and 
  1880, 
  and, 
  with 
  few 
  excep- 
  

   tions, 
  all 
  bearing 
  upon 
  his 
  favourite 
  studies. 
  In 
  several 
  of 
  his 
  

   many 
  important 
  communications 
  he 
  was 
  associated 
  with 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  K. 
  

   Parker, 
  F.R.S. 
  ; 
  and 
  I 
  may 
  here 
  mention 
  his 
  joint 
  papers, 
  " 
  On 
  

   the 
  Nomenclature 
  of 
  the" 
  Foraminifera 
  " 
  and 
  "On 
  the 
  Rhizopodal 
  

   Fauna 
  of 
  the 
  Mediterranean 
  compared 
  with 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Italian 
  and 
  

   some 
  other 
  Tertiary 
  Deposits," 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  utmost 
  value 
  for 
  the 
  history 
  

   of 
  these 
  minute 
  organisms. 
  I 
  can 
  only 
  notice, 
  from 
  want 
  of 
  time, 
  four 
  

   or 
  five 
  papers 
  by 
  himself: 
  — 
  1. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  oldest 
  known 
  Fossil 
  (Eozoon 
  

   eanadense) 
  of 
  the 
  Laurentian 
  Rocks 
  of 
  Canada," 
  &c. 
  ; 
  2. 
  " 
  On 
  

   Recent 
  and 
  Fossil 
  Bivalve 
  Entomostraca 
  "; 
  3. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Swiss 
  Jurassic 
  

   Foraminifera 
  " 
  ; 
  4. 
  " 
  On 
  the 
  Entomostraca 
  of 
  the 
  Carboniferous 
  

   Rocks 
  of 
  Scotland"; 
  5. 
  "On 
  the 
  range 
  in 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  Foraminifera/' 
  

   I 
  may 
  refer 
  also 
  to 
  his 
  completion 
  and 
  editing 
  of 
  Lartet 
  and 
  Christie's 
  

   ' 
  Reliquiae 
  Aquitanicoe/ 
  ranging 
  from 
  1865 
  to 
  1875, 
  to 
  his 
  new 
  

   edition 
  of 
  Dixon's 
  ' 
  Sussex,' 
  to 
  his 
  assisting 
  in 
  editing 
  the 
  ' 
  Micro- 
  

   graphic 
  Dictionary,' 
  to 
  his 
  editing 
  the 
  ' 
  Arctic 
  Admiralty 
  Manual 
  ' 
  

   for 
  the 
  Nares 
  Expedition 
  in 
  1875, 
  to 
  his 
  famous 
  Croydon 
  lecture, 
  

   and 
  to 
  that 
  most 
  useful 
  though 
  small 
  book, 
  ' 
  Syllabus, 
  or 
  Heads 
  

   of 
  Lectures 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  Lecturers 
  or 
  Teachers,' 
  by 
  himself 
  and 
  

   Prof. 
  Morris. 
  Other 
  subjects 
  have 
  likewise 
  received 
  his 
  attention, 
  

   as 
  shown 
  by 
  his 
  papers 
  on 
  the 
  Primeval 
  Rivers 
  of 
  England, 
  and 
  on 
  

   the 
  Diamond 
  Fields 
  of 
  South 
  Africa, 
  amongst 
  many 
  others. 
  Fifteen 
  

  

  