APPENDIX — KEITH, BRISBANE, NEILL, AND VICTORIA PRIZES. 719 



5th Biennial Period, 1866-68. — Dr Alexander Crum Brown and Dr Thomas Richard Fraser, 



for their conjoint paper " on the Connection between 

 Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action," published 

 in the Transactions of the Society. 



6th Biennial Period, 1868-70. — Not awarded. 



7th Biennial Period, 1870-72. — George James Allman,M.D., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Natural 



History, for his paper " on the Homological Relations of the 

 Ccelenterata," published in the Transactions, which forms a 

 leading chapter of his Monograph of Gymnoblastic or Tubu- 

 larian Hydroids — since published. 



8th Biennial Period, 1872-74. — Professor Lister, for his paper "on the Germ Theory of Putre- 

 faction and the Fermentive Changes," communicated to the 

 Society, 7th April 1873. 



9th Biennial Period, 1874-7 6. — Alexander Buchan, A.M., for his paper "on the Diurnal Oscillation 



of the Barometer," published in the Transactions of the Society. 



10th Biennial Period, 1876-78. — Professor Archibald Geikie, for his paper "on the Old Red 



Sandstone of Western Europe," published in the Transactions 

 of the Society. 



1 1 th Biennial Period, 1878-80. — Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, for his 



paper "on the Solar Spectrum in 1877-78, Avith some 

 Practical Idea of its probable Temperature of Origination," 

 published in the Transactions of the Society. 



12th Biennial Period, 1880-82. — Professor James Geikie, for his "Contributions to the Geology of 



the North-West of Europe," including his paper " on the 

 Geology of the Faroes," published in the Transactions of the 

 Society. 



13th Biennial Period, 1882-84. — Edward Sang, Esq., LL.D., for his paper "on the Need of 



Decimal Subdivisions in Astronomy and Navigation, and on 

 Tables requisite therefor," and generally for his Recalculation 

 of Logarithms both of Numbers and Trigonometrical Ratios, 

 — the former communication being published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society. 



III. THE NEILL PRIZE. 



1st Triennial Period, 1856-59. — Dr W. Lauder Lindsay, for his paper " on the Spermogones and 



Pycnides of Filamentous, Fruticulose, and Foliaceous Lichens," 

 published in the Transactions of the Society. 



2nd Triennial Period, 1859-62. — Robert Kaye Greville, LL.D., for his Contributions to Scottish 



Natural History, more especially in the department of Cryp- 

 togamic Botany, including his recent papers on Diatomacese. 



3rd Triennial Period, 1862-65. — Andrew Crombie Ramsay, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the 



Government School of Mines, and Local Director of the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain, for his various works and 

 Memoirs published during the last five years, in which he 

 has applied the large experience acquired by him in the 

 Direction of the arduous work of the Geographical Survey of 

 Great Britain to the elucidation of important questions bear- 

 ing on Geological Science. 



4th Triennial Period, 1865-68. — Dr William Carmichael MTntosh, for his paper "on the Struc- 

 ture of the British Nemerteans, and on some New British 

 Annelids," published in the Transactions of the Society. 



