34 PEOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



that his work, remote though its area may be, has not escaped the 

 friendly notice of the Geological Society of London, and that it 

 encourages him to give himself as heartily in the future as in the 

 past to the advancement of the science to which we are all devoted. 



AWAKD OP THE MuECHISON MeDAL. 



The Peesident then handed the Murchison Medal to Aechibald 

 Geikie, LL.D., F.G.S., for transmission to Prof. J". S. Xewbeeet, 

 M.D.,E.M.G.S., and said:— 



Dr. Geikie, — 



The Council of this Society in awarding the Murchison Medal to 

 Dr. Newberry, desire to place on record their sense of the very high 

 value of his geological researches in various parts of the United 

 States. Dr. Newberry's studies have been pursued, during the last 

 thirty years, in connexion with every branch of Geological Science. 

 The maps and memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ohio afford the 

 highest proofs of his skill as a stratigraphical geologist ; numerous 

 papers dealing with the phenomena of the Glacial Formations testify 

 to the attention which he has devoted to that important subject ; 

 while several of his memoirs treat of petrographical questions. In 

 Palaeontology Dr. Newberry has made many valuable contributions 

 to our knowledge, especially in connexion with Fishes and Plants. 

 Nor have the great problems of Geological Philosophy been neglected 

 by our esteemed Foreign Member, who now occupies so important 

 a post in connexion with one of the greatest educational institu- 

 tions of his native country. "When the Director-General of our own 

 Geological Survey transmits to one of the pioneers of American 

 Geology a medal founded by a father of British Geology, the action 

 may be fairly held to typify the universal brotherhood of Science. 



Dr. Geikie, in reply, said : — 



Mr. Peesidext, — 



On the part of Dr. Newberry I am commissioned to receive the 

 Murchison Medal which has been awarded to him. Were my friend 

 here himself, he would express, far more fittingly than I can, his 

 gratification that the Geological Society of London has conferred 

 this honour upon him. But there is one advantage perhaps in his 



