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You took exceptional pains to fit yourself for your future calling 

 by a prolonged course of study. After a successful career at 

 Cambridge you proceeded to Munich, to study palaeontology under 

 a great Master — the revered Zittel. The results of your training 

 have been already shown by your various papers on Invertebrate 

 Palaeontology, among which I would specially allude to your work 

 on the Jurassic Fauna of Cutch, published in the ' Palaeontologia 

 Indica.' 



In your present position your time, like that of most professional 

 geologists, is no doubt largely occupied by routine-work, but what 

 you have already done encourages us to hope that your contribu- 

 tions to the science of Palaeontology will rank with those of your 

 distinguished predecessors in the post which you now occupy. 



A WARD OF THE MURCHISON GEOLOGICAL FlJND. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund to Mr. Herbert Lapworth, B.Sc, 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Herbert Lapworth, — 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund 

 is awarded to you, in acknowledgment of your investigations among 

 the Llandovery rocks of the Rhayader district. 



During the intervals of a busy professional life you have devoted 

 your attention to a line of research with which the name of 

 Lapworth will ever be associated. The success of your investiga- 

 tions will be admitted by all who have read your admirable paper 

 in the 56th volume of our Quarterly Journal. Of that paper I 

 need merely say that it is worthy of the son of Charles Lapworth. 

 We trust that our Journal will, in future years, contain many other 

 equally-valuable contributions from your pen. 



I have much pleasure in handing to you this Award, bestowed by 

 the Council as an incentive to further work. 



