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literature. He has set to all of us a noble example of modest, 

 earnest, and unwearied devotion to the cause of our favourite 

 science. Let us trust that the brave veteran may not only live to 

 complete the research on which he tells us that he is engaged, but 

 prolong for years to come his sunny and beneficent old age. 



A WARD OE THE Mt/RCHISOX MeDAL. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to 

 Mr. George Barrow, F.G.S., addressing him in the following 

 words : — 



Mr. Barrow, — 



It is a great, pleasure to me to hand to one who has been my 

 colleague for many years, a tribute paid by the Council of the 

 Geological Society to a life spent in the furtherance of Geological 

 Science. 



In awarding to you the Murchison Medal they have borne in 

 mind that you commenced your official career by investigations of 

 a part of Yorkshire remarkable both for the development of Lower 

 Mesozoie rocks and for its physical features, and by writing a terse 

 and lucid account of it in the North Cleveland memoir. They 

 remember, too, that after assisting in the mapping of the West 

 Yorkshire dales, you proceeded to the Scottish Highlands, and that 

 by there introducing modern petrographical methods, you obtained 

 results which have left a permanent mark in the literature on that 

 fertile source of geological controversy. Your paper in 1893 on an. 

 intrusion of muscovite-biotite-gneiss has taken high rank, not only 

 as a storehouse of careful observations on the characters of igneous 

 and metamorphic rocks, but as elucidating the problems connected 

 with hypogene geology. It was followed by announcements of your 

 discovery of chloritoid in Kincardineshire and of the possible occur- 

 rence of Silurian strata in Forfarshire ; while in ] 904 you threw 

 much light on the difficult question of the relationship of the 

 Moine Gneisses of Perthshire to the metamorphic rocks of other 

 parts of Scotland. 



On your transference to Devon and Cornwall the experience which 

 you had gained was utilized in unravelling the structure of that 

 tormented region, and in studying the phenomena presented by the 



