1 proceedings of the geological society. [may i906, 



Awards from the Lyell Geological Fund. 



In presenting a moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. William George Fearnsides, M.A., 

 the President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Fearnsides, — 



A moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund is awarded to you by the Council, iu recognition of your 

 valuable contributions to cur knowledge of the Lower Palaeozoic and 

 the Cretaceous rocks. 



Your first contribution to the Quarterly Journal recorded an 

 interesting discovery on the borders of our University town, where 

 one might have expected that little remained to be done. But, like 

 so many Cambridge men, you, dissatisfied with the simplicity of the 

 Mesozoic rocks of East Anglia, turned your attention to the older 

 rocks of the western tracts of Britain ; and that you have there 

 already obtained most valuable results is proved by your admirable 

 paper on 4 The Geology of Arenig Fawr & Moel Llyfnant,' published 

 in last year's Quarterly Journal. 



Your friends know that this is but a beginning, and that you 

 have already done much work in Wales and elsewhere which is 

 not yet published. We shall look forward with confidence to the 

 results of your continued researches ; and it gives me much pleasure 

 to hand to you this proof of the Council's approbation of what j^ou 

 have already done, and of their interest in your future work. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. Richard 

 H. Solly, M.A., to Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S., Sec.G.S., for 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him in the following 

 words : — 



Prof. Watts, — 



The other moiety of the Lyell Geological Fund has been awarded 

 to Mr. Richard H. Solly, as an acknowledgment of the valuable 

 work done by him on the minerals of the Binnenthal and else- 

 where. Mr. Solly has carried out his labours under difficulties, and 



