Vol. 52.] ANNIVERSARY MEETING LYELL GEOLOGICAL EUND. Xivil 



fortunate circumstance that most of the larger private collections of 

 Fossil Pishes in this country have now been acquired by the British 

 Museum, has afforded me favourable opportunities for study such as 

 have never been enjoyed by any one previously. The biological 

 problems suggested by these fossils seem to me to outweigh in interest 

 the geological questions connected with them to so great a degree, 

 that I have rarely been able to look upon them from any bat a 

 morphologist's point of view ; and all the more on this account do 

 I appreciate the high honour that is conferred upon me by the 

 Geological Society to-day. 



Award of the Ltell Geological Fund. 



The President then presented one-half of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Dr. William Fraser 

 Hume, Assoc.R.S.M. & R.Coll.Sci., F.G.S., and addressed him as 

 follows : — 



Dr. Hume, — 



Although for several years you have been actively engaged as a 

 Demonstrator in Geology in the Royal College of Science, you have 

 not allowed any opportunities for doing original work in the field 

 to escape you ; and your essay on the Chemical and Micro-minera- 

 logical Structure of the several zones of the Upper Cretaceous rocks 

 of the South of England illustrates admirably how such detailed 

 work should best be carried out. 



Tour papers on the ' Black-Earth,' ' the Loess,' and on the Chalk 

 of Russia, ' on the Genesis of the Chalk,' and on ' Oceanic Deposits,' 

 indicate the bent of your researches towards the microscopic inves- 

 tigation of rocks — a line of study which Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., a 

 past President of this Society, so profitably engaged in. 



The Council hope, by the presentation of this Award, not only to 

 mark their appreciation of your past researches, but to encourage 

 you to extend them to other formations with the same useful 

 results. 



Dr. Hume replied as follows : — 



Mr. President,— 

 At times a feeling of despondency has crossed my mind, when I 



