ANNIVERSARY MELTING——LYELL AND BARLOW-JAMESON FUNDS, 35 
Professor Larworta,— 
The Council has awarded to you the balance of the proceeds of 
the Lyell Donation Fund in recognition of the value of your re- 
searches into the paleontology and physical structure of the older 
rocks of Great Britain—carried on frequently under unfavourable 
circumstances and to the injury of your health—and to aid you in 
similar investigations. Your papers on ‘“ The Girvan Succession,” 
‘The Moffat Series,” published in our Journal, and “The Graptolites,” 
and “ The Secret of the Highlands,” contributed to the ‘ Geological 
Magazine, were the outcome of an extremely laborious and detailed 
exploration of the districts to which they refer—an exploration in 
conducting which you spared no pains and shrank from no hardships. 
No one who desires to know the structure of these districts can 
safely omit a careful study of these very instructive papers. 
Professor LapworrH in reply said :— 
Mr. PResrDENt, 
I am very grateful to the Council of the Geological Society for 
this proof of their continued interest in my geological work, and to 
yourself, Sir, for the generous and kindly manner in which you have 
spoken of what I have done. I am at present too little recovered 
to hope that I shall soon be in a position to resume my studies of 
the ancient british rocks and fossils ; but you may rest assured that 
immediately my ordinary health is restored, I shall of necessity 
gravitate again, if I may so express myself, to the old familiar 
fields. 
As this award has been made me from the Lyell bequest, I shall 
hold it both a pleasure and a duty to endeavour to devote it to 
working out a few fresh facts for discussion in this Society, along 
the linesl aid down in the ‘ Principles.’ Whether that endeavour 
will ever be realized is for the future to determine. Even the most 
I ever hope to accomplish will be to show, vast as is the mass 
of geological material hitherte collected, how insignificant it actually 
is In cemparison with that which remains for discovery, and what a 
mighty future awaits that great science to which we are all devoted. 
AWARD OF THE BARLOW-JAMESON FUND. 
The PresipEnt then handed to Professor Bonnry, D.Sc., F-R.S., 
for transmission to Dr. J. Crotz, a portion of the proceeds of the 
Barlow-Jameson Fund, and said :— 
Professor Bonnry,— 
The Council, in recognition of the value of Dr. James Croll’s 
researches into the “ Later physical History of the Earth,” and to 
aid him in further researches of a like kind, has awarded to him the 
sum of £20 from the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund. Dr. 
Croll’s work on ‘ Climate and Time in their Geological Relations,’ 
and his numerous separate papers on various cognate subjects, in- 
cluding ‘‘The Eccentricity of the Harth’s Orbit,’ ‘“‘ Date of the 
