﻿ANNIVERSARY 
  MEETING 
  MURCHISON 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  FUND. 
  $$ 
  

  

  much 
  of 
  the 
  fret 
  and 
  fever 
  of 
  these 
  bustling 
  times. 
  But 
  a 
  geologist, 
  

   after 
  all, 
  is 
  human, 
  and 
  he 
  would 
  be 
  less 
  so 
  if 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  warmly 
  

   appreciate 
  the 
  sympathy 
  of 
  his 
  fellow 
  hammerers. 
  I 
  need 
  hardly 
  

   say, 
  therefore, 
  that 
  I 
  am 
  extremely 
  gratified 
  to 
  find 
  that 
  1 
  have 
  

   gained 
  the 
  sympathy 
  of 
  so 
  representative 
  a 
  body 
  of 
  geologists 
  as 
  the 
  

   Council 
  of 
  this 
  Society. 
  The 
  distinction 
  which 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  so 
  

   good 
  as 
  to 
  confer 
  upou 
  me 
  I 
  shall 
  cherish 
  not 
  only 
  as 
  a 
  mark 
  of 
  

   their 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  little 
  I 
  have 
  done, 
  but 
  as 
  an 
  additional 
  

   incentive 
  to 
  continued 
  work." 
  

  

  Award 
  of 
  the 
  Murchison 
  Geological 
  Fund. 
  

  

  In 
  presenting 
  the 
  Balance 
  of 
  the 
  Murchison 
  Geological 
  Fund 
  to 
  

   Mr. 
  Grenville 
  A. 
  J. 
  Cole, 
  F.G.S., 
  the 
  President 
  said 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Grenville 
  Cole, 
  — 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  few 
  years 
  you 
  have 
  published 
  several 
  

   interesting 
  papers 
  on 
  petrological 
  subjects, 
  and 
  especially 
  on 
  sphe- 
  

   rulitic 
  and 
  perlitic 
  structure, 
  and 
  on 
  volcanic 
  glasses. 
  The 
  Council 
  

   of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  has 
  presented 
  you 
  with 
  the 
  Balance 
  of 
  the 
  

   Murchison 
  Fund 
  in 
  recognition 
  of 
  your 
  contributions 
  to 
  Petrology, 
  

   and 
  as 
  a 
  means 
  of 
  aiding 
  you 
  in 
  extending 
  your 
  investigations. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Cole, 
  in 
  reply, 
  said 
  : 
  — 
  

   Mr. 
  President, 
  — 
  

  

  This 
  award, 
  granted 
  by 
  the 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society, 
  is 
  

   all 
  the 
  more 
  pleasant 
  to 
  me 
  because 
  so 
  completely 
  unexpected. 
  It 
  is 
  

   to 
  me 
  but 
  another 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  generous 
  encouragement 
  that 
  is 
  

   extended 
  by 
  the 
  master-craftsmen 
  to 
  the 
  apprentices 
  in 
  geological 
  

   work. 
  

  

  To 
  deal 
  with 
  rocks 
  from 
  a 
  purely 
  mineralogical 
  standpoint 
  would 
  

   be 
  to 
  ignore 
  the 
  broad 
  principles 
  of 
  geology 
  marked 
  out 
  by 
  the 
  

   founders 
  of 
  the 
  science, 
  and 
  it 
  will 
  always 
  be 
  my 
  earnest 
  endeavour, 
  

   stimulated 
  by 
  the 
  fellowship 
  of 
  this 
  Society, 
  to 
  connect 
  the 
  minuter 
  

   researches 
  of 
  the 
  laboratory 
  with 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  earth-structure 
  in 
  the 
  

   field. 
  

  

  