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have, moreover, strayed from the path of pure Mineralogy into the 

 ways of Petrology, and have always been ready to let geologists 

 have the advantage of that valuable help which your position in 

 the Natural History Museum enables you to give them. 



We are glad to find that our great National Museum continues to 

 keep to the front in Mineralogy, and that we may look forward 

 to the continuance of able observers among its officials. The 

 Wollaston Fund is most fittingly awarded to this end. 



Mr. Prior replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President, — 



I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the Council for the 

 honour which they have done me in conferring this Award. That 

 it should be connected with the name of Wollaston is to me an 

 additional pleasure, since my work has been mainly of a chemical 

 and mineralogical character. 



Mineralogists arc perhaps rather apt to pay too little attention 

 10 the modes of occurrence and mutual associations of the minerals 

 that they study. To try in future to make my mineralogy more 

 geological in its character will, I feel, be the best way for me to show 

 my high appreciation of this generous recognition from the Council, 

 and of the kind words with which you, Sir, have accompanied it. 



Award of the Murchison Geological Fund. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. A. Vaughan Jennings, 

 F.L.S., to Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.P.S., for transmission 

 to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Judd, — 



Mr. Yaughan Jennings has done much work in Physical Geology 

 and in Petrology, especially in the papers which he has given us 

 on the country around Davos in Switzerland, and he has done this 

 despite long and severe illness. Driven abroad by that illness, he 

 has used the opportunity thus afforded to investigate the geological 

 structure of the district in which he has been compelled to live and 

 to unravel the geological history of the great valley of the Engadin. 



