Xlii PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 895, 



Award of the Murchison Geological Fund. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund to Mr. Albert Charles Seward, M.A., 

 F.G.S., addressing him in the following words : — 



Mr. Seward, — 



The Council of the Geological Society have awarded to you the 

 Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund, in recog- 

 nition of your work on Fossil Botany, and to aid you in your further 

 researches in this field of investigation. Your early training in Vege- 

 table Biology gives you a great advantage in the study of fossil plants, 

 and your various papers during the past seven years, as well as the 

 Catalogue of Wealden Plants upon which you are now engaged, and 

 of which the first part is published, give promise of still more 

 valuable results in the future, which I trust you may live to verify. 



Mr. Seward, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



In expressing my heartiest thanks to the Council of the Society 

 for the Award which I have just received at your hands, I can only 

 venture to hope that my future endeavours in the study of fossil 

 plants may, to some extent, make amends for the insufficiency of 

 my present claim to such generous recognition. 



In the list of past recipients of the Murchison Award there are 

 included the names of some of the pioneers of Palaeontological 

 Science, and it must always be my aim, as it is indeed my duty, to 

 follow their example in the promising and rich field of research in 

 which they so successfully laboured. I should like to add, Sir, that 

 my thanks are due to you for the stimulus which you have given to 

 my work. It was through your initiative that I was enabled to 

 undertake the task of describing our Wealden flora, a work which I 

 hope to complete with as much speed and accuracy as may be. 



