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metamorphic aureoles round the granitic intrusions. Here also 

 your paper on the high-level platform of Bodmin Moor proved that 

 more recent phenomena were not escaping your attention. At tho 

 present time, the work upon which you arc engaged in Warwick- 

 shire is already throwing much light on some obscure stratigraphy. 



Will you allow me, as an old colleague who has had every 

 opportunity of judging, to add my own testimony that your work, 

 wherever you have been placed, has been characterized by that 

 thoroughness and conscientiousness in the field which alone can 

 lead to permanent advance in the interpretation of geological 

 phenomena ? 



On behalf of the Council I beg you to accept this Medal and 

 Award. 



Mr. Barrow, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I feel deeply the honour which the Society has conferred on me 

 by the award of the Murchison Medal. I have spent many years 

 working on those Highland rocks in which the founder of this 

 Medal took so keen an interest. The Murchison Medal has now 

 been awarded to several workers on these rocks, and as no two of 

 us have come to the same conclusions, it is gratifying to feel that 

 the Fellows of this Society can rely implicitly on the impartiality 

 of its Council in its awards. I have to thank you very much for 

 the kindly way in which you have spoken of my work ; it is 

 especially agreeable, as coming from an old colleague and the head 

 of that branch of the service to which I belong, which makes it a 

 special pleasure to receive the Medal from your hands. 



Award op the Lyell Medal. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Mr. S, S. Buckman, P.G.S., the- 

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Buckmast, — 



The Lyell Medal is by custom associated more especially with 

 palaeontological research. It is, therefore, fittingly awarded to you,, 

 in recognition of the conspicuous place which you hold among British 

 pakeontologis's, as regards both your intimate knowledge of species- 



