34 proceedings op the geological society. [may 1894, 



Award of the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. Aubrey Strahan, M.A., F.G.S., 

 addressing him in the following words : — 



Mr. Strahan, — 



The Council have this year awarded to you the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund, in token of appreciation 

 of your geological work in several parts of England and on the 

 "Welsh Border. In solid geology you have especially distinguished 

 yourself amongst the Carboniferous rocks of the Pennine Chain and 

 of North Wales, whilst your contributions to our own Journal, on 

 more than one subject in connexion with the Mesozoic rocks, have 

 evinced the interest that you take in questions arising within your 

 own professional experience. The Glacial Drifts of the Welsh Border 

 and the Glaciation of South Lancashire have also come under 

 your notice in dealing with the difficult subject of Superficial 

 Deposits. Beyond any mere assistance which the Balance of the 

 Fund might render towards further research, the Council, by this 

 Award, desire to express their sense of the value of the work which 

 you have already accomplished. 



Mr. Stra.han replied as follows : — 

 Mr. President, — 



In thanking you and the Council of the Geological Society for 

 this Award, I wish to express my deep gratification at being 

 honoured by your selection. 



During my connexion with the Geological Survey I have, from 

 the nature of the work, been engaged in so many different parts of 

 the country that I have been unable to concentrate my attention on 

 any one formation as closely as might have been the case, and have 

 been led to consider some of the wider problems of geology. I 

 trust, however, that my work has not been without service to those 

 engaged upon the more minute zonal divisions of strata. 



In every district in which I have been occupied, geologists with 

 local knowledge have generously placed their observations at my 

 disposal. The only return I could make lay in producing the 

 results of my work as expeditiously and in as useful a form as 

 possible. I take this Award as an indication that I have not been 

 wholly unsuccessful. 



