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Award of the "Wollaston Donation Yjjwd. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Dr. Charles Callaway, F.G.S., and 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Charles Callaway, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded to you the 

 balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Pund, in re- 

 cognition of the value of your researches among the older British 

 rocks. By your identification of Upper Cambrian rocks in Shrox)- 

 shire you have placed beyond question the antiquity of the Ehyo- 

 litic group of the Wrekin, our knowledge of which and of yet older 

 rocks in that district you have greatly augmented. Your contribu- 

 tions also to the geology of Anglesey and towards unravelling the 

 stratigraphy of the Scotch Highlands have been of great value, and 

 we look forward to the results of further researches, in aid of which 

 I have great pleasure in placing in your hands the amount of the 

 award. That j'ou receive it from a fellow-labourer will, I hope, 

 make it not the less welcome. 



Dr. Callaway, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 



I highly value the honour which the Council has seen fit to confer 

 upon me, and I shall not readily forget the kind words with which 

 you have accompanied the award. "We are told that the reward of 

 virtue is not bread ; but bread is a sustain er of virtue : and in like 

 manner, though geology is its own reward, the geologist is conscious 

 of discouragement if the appreciation of his fellow-workers is with- 

 held. I therefore regard this award as an effective stimulus to 

 future exertion. It is a great pleasure to me to receive it at the 

 hands of one who has so often been a kindly helper in working out 

 difflcult problems in lithology. 



Award op the Mitrchison Medal. 



The President then handed the Murchison Medal to Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, P.B-.S., for transmission to Dr. Ferdinand Romer, 

 F.M.G.S., of Breslau, and addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Woodward, — 



The Council has awarded to Dr. Ferdinand Romer the Murchison 

 Medal and a sum of Ten Guineas from the Donation Fund. His 

 life-long and unwearied labours in the service of our science have 

 long since made his name familiar to his fellow-workers. When I 

 state that the Royal Society Catalogue, published now more than 



