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Award from the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Prof. Owfjst Thomas Jones, M.A., 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Jones, — 



Up to within the last few years, the wide-spreading and rugged 

 expanse of Central Wales was tinted upon our geological maps 

 of a uniform pink colour, almost as if it were composed of the 

 strata of a single sub-formation. But, little by little, geologists of 

 the younger generation have been working out the details of 

 its complicated structure, collecting the fossils, and bringing its 

 component rock-groups into line and harmony with their zone- 

 fellows elsewhere. In this work of reformation you have taken a 

 full share. While still a member of the Geological Survey, you 

 devoted your holidays to the enthusiastic study of these complicated 

 strata of your native land, and in your Plynlimmon paper you have 

 most successfully unravelled the sequence and structure of that 

 ' heart of Mid-Wales ' and of much of the ground to the west. I 

 have much pleasure in handing to you the Balance of the Proceeds 

 of the Wollaston Fund, which the Council have awarded to you, in 

 recognition of the good work that you have done, and as an 

 incentive to you to complete it, — a task which will be rendered 

 easier by your appointment as Professor of Geology in the Uni- 

 versity College of Wales at Aberystwyth. 



Award from the Murchison Geological Fund. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund to Mr. Edgar Sierling Cobbold, F.G.S., the 

 President addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Cobbold, — 



Although the County of Shropshire was to Murchison a veritable 

 Golconda, he was not able to remove all its treasure or to wrest all 

 its secrets, but left a generous reward for his many successors. 

 Among them, by your excavations in a district rendered difficult 

 by earth-movement and thick soil-covering, you have succeeded in 



