xl PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1895, 



A WARD OF THE MtXECHLSON MEDAL. 



In handing the Murchison Medal (awarded to Prof. Dr. Gdstav 

 Lindstrom, For.Memb.G.S.) to Dr. G. J. Hinde, V.P.G.S., for trans- 

 mission to the recipient, the President said : — 



Dr. Hinde, — 



The Council of the Geological Society have unanimously awarded 

 the Murchison Medal to Prof. Gustav Lindstrom, F.M.G.S., of the 

 State Museum in Stockholm, in recognition of his long and valuable 

 services, extending over 46 years, devoted to the description of the 

 fossil faunas of the Silurian System, in the classical district of 

 Gotland. Thirty years ago Prof. Lindstrom settled the struc- 

 ture and affinities of that truly remarkable group of the Oper- 

 culated Corals (1866, 1871, 1883) and the curious Brachiopod 

 genus Trimerella (1868) ; be has dealt with the Silurian Corals of 

 North Russia, Siberia, and North China, and described the Triassic 

 and Jurassic fossils of Spitsbergen. His great work on the Silurian 

 Gasteropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland merits special and honourable 

 mention ; as also his paper on the singular Cephalopod Ascoceras 

 (1888-90). By his discovery of a fossil air-breathing Scorpion 

 (Palceophonus) in the Silurian of Gotland he assisted to carry back 

 land-animals into Silurian times. His Catalogue of Silurian Crus- 

 tacea and of Swedish Fossils, and his labours to illustrate both the 

 Crinoidea and Trilobita of Sweden (left unpublished by Angelin), 

 must also be mentioned. Nearly all these memoirs have been 

 simultaneously issued in Swedish and English, so that Prof. Lind- 

 strom's works form really an integral part of our own literature. 



These are, after all, but a few out of the many important re- 

 searches which have occupied Prof. Lindstrom's long and laborious 

 life. He is already a Foreign Member of our Society, — now the 

 Council desire to add the further recognition of his distinguished 

 services to Geology by sending him this appropriate Medal, with 

 their heartiest good wishes and regards. 



Dr. Hinde, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 



I esteem it a privilege to have been asked by my friend Prof. 

 Lindstrom to represent him on this occasion. He desires me to 

 express his regret at his inability to be present in person, and he 



