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and his services in the cause of our science have been so long known 
to British geologists, that I need say little more than that we pre- 
sent the Medal to him as our great instructor in the geology of one 
of the most interesting and attractive districts of Europe. 
- Prof. Ramsay,in reply, said that he held in his hand a letter from 
Prof. Studer, in which he offered his best thanks to the Geological 
Society for having judged his endeavours to advance the geology. of 
the Alps and Switzerland worthy of the Wollaston Medal, and ex- 
pressed his regret that his advanced age of nearly eighty-five 
years prevented his being present to receive it in person. Prof. 
Ramsay added that he felt it a great privilege to be allowed to re- 
ceive the Medal, and that he should have much pleasure in forward- 
ing it to his venerable friend, who, he was sure, would be much 
gratified by the terms in which the President had spoken of him. 
Prof. Studer spoke of his eighty-five years; but Prof. Ramsay had 
seen him in Berne only five years ago, when he was as bright and 
almost as active as the youngest Fellow of the Society. 
The Presrpent next handed the Murchison Medal to Prof. Morris 
for transmission to Prof. M‘Coy, F.G.8., and addressed him as fol- 
lows :— 
Prof. Morr1s,— 
In forwarding the Murchison Medal to Prof. M‘Coy, you will, I 
trust, inform him that the Council has awarded it to him for his 
paleontological researches. These, to a considerable extent, have 
been directed to the older Paleozoic rocks, of which the donor of this 
medal was the distinguished expounder. During his early labours, 
Prof. M‘Coy described many forms collected by the late Sir Richard 
Griffith from the Silurian and Carboniferous rocks of Ireland, and 
subsequently, while at Cambridge, associated with Prof. Sedgwick, 
he published, in the Synopsis of the British Paleeozoic Rocks, de- 
scriptions of the fossils collected by that veteran geologist. During 
his residence in Australia for some years past as Professor of Geo- 
logy in Melbourne University, he has chiefly directed his attention to 
the Paleontology and Geology of that country, more especially of the 
Colony of Victoria ; and besides other published papers, he has pre- 
pared five decades of Victorian organic remains, characteristic of the 
different formations. 
Prof. Morris replied,— 
Mr. PREsIDENT, 
I have much pleasure in receiving for transmission to Prof. M‘Coy 
this token of the value with which his labours for the advancement 
of geological and palwontological science are regarded by the Council 
of the Geological Society. I cannot but feel that in his distant, 
adopted home Prof. M‘Coy will highly estimate and fully appreciate 
this recognition of his researches on Paleozoic organic remains and 
