xlviii PBOCEEDIXGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETV. [May I907, 



AwAED OP THE MlJECHISOX GEOLOGICAL FfXD. 



The Pbesidext then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund to Dr. Felix Oswald, addressing him 

 as follows : — 



Dr. Oswald, — 



The Council has awarded to you the Balance of the Proceeds of 

 the Murchison Geological Fund, in recognition of the value of your 

 contributions to our knowledge of the Geology of Armenia. The 

 remarkable volume which you have published on this subject affords 

 ample evidence of your keen powers of observation and of the 

 indomitable courage with which you have done pioneer-work in a 

 little-known country and with which, also, you have laid your 

 results before the world. 



Your treatise is, in one respect, probably unique in geological 

 literature. To surmount the difficulties presented by the expense 

 of publication, you purchased a hand-press, learned the art of type- 

 setting, and laboriously printed off the whole book, page by page, 

 with your own hand, while the numerous sections, maps, and plates 

 of fossils were likewise drawn, reproduced, coloured, and printed 

 off by yourself. The volume is dedicated to your wife, who will 

 share your pleasure at this recognition of your labours, and to whom 

 with yourself I desire to convey the good wishes of the Geological 

 Society. 



AWAEDS FBOM THE LVELL GEOLOGICAL FlJXD. 



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

 Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Thomas Ceosbee Caxteill, B.Sc, 

 the Pbesidext addressed him in the following words : — 



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Mr. Caxteill, — 



The Council has this year awarded to you a moiety of the Balance 

 of the Lyell Geological Fund, in recognition of the quality of your 

 contributions to Geology, more particularly in relation to the strati- 

 graphy of the formations from the base of the Lias down into the older 

 Palceozoic rocks. Your early paper on Wyre Forest afforded good 

 promise of your future success. Since it appeared you have served 



