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Award of the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The President then presented one moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Arthur Humphreys 

 FooRD, F.G.S., and addressed him in the following terms : — 



Mr. FooRD, — 



Your skill with the microscoi^e and pencil have stood you in good 

 stead in investigating and illustrating the minute structures of 

 many wonderful fossils from the older rock-masses of our globe. 

 To our knowledge of some of these remarkable organisms, which 

 alike from their aberrant characters and from the very remote 

 period at which they lived, must ever have the greatest fascination 

 both for Geologists and Biologists, you have made some very valu- 

 able contributions ; and the Council of this Society trust that an 

 Award from the Lyell Fund will serve as a stimulus and aid to you 

 in carrying on these and kindred researches. 



Mr. FooRD, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 



I beg to return my warmest thanks to the Council of the Geolo- 

 gical Society for this most acceptable and quite unlooked-for mark 

 of their approval of the slight services I may have rendered to 

 Geological Science. While the gift itself will afford me material 

 aid in the further prosecution of my palaeontological studies, the 

 thought that I have been deemed worthy of such a great distinction 

 will add a new impulse to those labours. 



The President next presented the second moiety of the Balance 

 of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Thomas Egberts, 

 F.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Roberts, — 



Among the most valuable methods for solving the great problems 

 of stratigraphical geology is the one which has been chosen by 

 yourself, namely the direct comparison of a series of beds and of 

 their characteristic fossils in one typical district with those of 

 another and now isolated area. The Council of the Geological 

 Society, hoping to encourage you in work of this kind, so well 



