ANNIVERSARY MEETING MTJRCHISON MEDAL. 3I 



heartily for the recognition of the excellent work done by Mr. Derby 

 in a country whose geological structure is almost unknown, and 1 

 consider that in addition to the honour conferred on the recipient, 

 the Award is of value as likely to encourage the local government in 

 carrying on the systematic investigation of the province in the 

 manner that they have so worthily begun. 



Award oe the Murchison Medal. 



The President in presenting the Murchison Medal to Prof. A. 

 H. Green, M.A., P.E-.S., addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Green, — 



In awarding to you the Murchison Medal, the Council desires to 

 mark its sense of the importance of the contributions which you 

 have made to our knowledge of English geology, more particularly 

 in the Coalfield of Yorkshire, with which your name will ever be 

 honourably associated. It might not be appropriate were I to allow 

 myself to dwell on the special value of your geological labours. I 

 will only say that they long ago placed you among the ablest field- 

 geologists of this country. But besides the work done by you in 

 the field, and expressed on maps and sections, we owe a further 

 debt to you for the clear, terse, and interesting descriptions which 

 you have given of your researches. It is always pleasant as well as 

 instructive to read one of your writings, and this eminent faculty 

 of exposition you have turned to valuable account in your admirable 

 ' Manual of Geology.' There is to myself a peculiar pleasure in 

 being the channel through which this Award of the Council comes 

 to you, for I can look on an unbroken friendship with you extending 

 over some thirty years. In handing to you the Medal founded by 

 Murchison, I am reminded of our early intercourse in the Geological 

 Survey under that great leader, when we discussed together the 

 questions to which we have each since devoted ourselves. And I 

 am sure I fulfil the desire of every Eellow of this Society when I 

 express the hope that, in your high position at Oxford and in the 

 original research which you will doubtless still carry on, you may 

 continue for many years that career of distinction which we gladly 

 recognize to-day. 



