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Award op the Murchison Medal. 



In presenting the Murchison Medal to Mr. William Talbot 

 Aveline, P.G.S., the President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Aveline, — 



The Council have this year awarded to you the Murchison Medal, 

 together with a sum of Ten Guineas, in recognition of the import- 

 ance of your work as a geological surveyor. Nearly half a century 

 has elapsed since your first communication to this Society, in 

 conjunction with the late Sir Andrew Ramsay, on the structure of 

 portions of Wales. Later on, we find you engaged in mapping and 

 describing some of the Mesozoic Pocks of Central Pngland, and it is 

 now rather more than thirty years since you commenced your work 

 on the Permian and Carboniferous of Nottinghamshire and Derby- 

 shire. Still more recently you were engaged, as district surveyor, 

 on the borders of the Lake Country, being associated with Prof. 

 Hughes, Mr. Tiddeman, and other well-known geologists. That 

 your supervision of the work then progressing has yielded excellent 

 results in relation to the survey of that difficult region is a matter 

 of notoriety. 



Although it is some time since you retired from active employ- 

 ment, I feel sure that you will be gratified to find that the record 

 of former years is not overlooked by a generation of geologists, who 

 recognize the value of the work in which you had so large a 

 share. 



Mr. Aveline, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



It is with feelings of great gratification that I receive this Medal, 

 founded by my former chief, Sir Poderick Murchison, whose friend- 

 ship and kindness I experienced during the time he was Director- 

 General of the Geological Survey, and in whose company I made some 

 very pleasant geological explorations. 



I am very much pleased to think that my work on the Geological 

 Survey has been appreciated by the Council of this Society, and 

 that they should have thought me worthy of receiving this Medal. 



Mr. President, I cannot let this opportunity pass without saying 

 a word as to another Director-General of the Geological Survey, the 

 distinguished successor of Sir Poderick Murchison — Sir Andrew 



