Vol. 52.] ANNIVEESAEY MEETING — MT7BCHISON MEDAL, xliii 



AWAED OF THE MlTECHTSON MEDAL. 



In presenting the Murchison Medal to T. Mellaed Eeade, Esq., 

 C.E., E.G.S., the Peesident said : — 



Mr. Mellaed Eeade, — 



The Council of the Geological Society have awarded to you the 

 Murchison Medal, in recognition of your work on • The Origin 

 of Mountain Ranges,' containing the records of much original and 

 experimental research. Since you joined this Society in 1872 you 

 have contributed to the various scientific Journals, and to this and 

 other kindred institutions, more than a hundred papers on geological 

 subjects, treating of ' the Geology and Physics of the post-Glacial 

 Period in Lancashire and Cheshire/ ' the Buried Yalley of the 

 Mersey,' ' the Drift-beds of the North- West of England,' 'the 

 Chalk-masses in the Contorted Drift of Cromer,' * Tidal Action as a 

 Geological Cause,' 'the Moon and the Earth,' and many other- 

 kindred subjects bearing upon Dynamical Geology, to which you 

 have devoted much careful thought and originality of observation 

 extending over more than a quarter of a century, and have never 

 permitted an opportunity to slip of adding to our store of geological 

 knowledge. 



This Medal will serve to assure you that, although not often 

 present at our Meetings, and living at a distance from town, you 

 are neither overlooked nor forgotten by your fellow-geologists here, 

 nor have your labours been unappreciated. 



Mr. Mellaed Eeade replied as follows : — 

 Mr. Peesident, — 



It is with mingled feelings difficult, nay impossible, to express 

 here, that I receive the Medal founded by the illustrious author of 

 ' Siluria,' which the Council of this Society, in the exercise of their 

 functions, have thought fit to award to me. If one circumstance 

 more than another could add to the pleasure which the Award affords 

 me, it is, Dr. "Woodward, that I receive it through you as President of 

 this Society. I cannot forget that my first little geological venture 

 was launched in the columns of the ' Geological Magazine,' and that 

 ever since you have proved to be a true and consistent friend. 



As regards the work and researches of which you have so favour- 

 ably spoken, it is for others to assess their value, and for me to 



