Xlviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I9OO, 



acknowledgment was made in my last paper of the kind and constant 

 assistance vouchsafed to me by Prof. Bonney during the progress 

 of the work.' 



A WARD OF THE LYELL GEOLOGICAL FUND. 



In handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund, awarded to Miss Gertrude L. Elles, of Newnham College, 

 to Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., for transmission to the 

 recipient, the President addressed him in the following words : — 



Professor Hughes, — 



After some stratigraphical work in the Lake District and in 

 North Wales, done with Miss E. M. R. Wood, Miss Elles gave 

 special attention to the Graptolites, and we have had from her a 

 paper on the subgenera Petalograptus and Cephcdograjotus, adding 

 much to our knowledge of the characters and range of those fossils, 

 followed by the still more important paper on the Graptolite-fauna 

 of the Skiddaw Slates, in which, after a mass of descriptive details, 

 the phylogeny of the group is discussed at some length. 



This has been followed by a paper, as yet unpublished, in which 

 her knowledge of the Graptolites is applied to the zonal classification 

 of the W r enlock Shales of the Welsh Borderland. We hope that this 

 Award from the Lyell Geological Fund will show her that her work is 

 valued and will encourage her to continue it. 



Prof. Hughes replied as follows : — 



Mr. President, — 



I am glad to have been asked to receive the Award from the Lyell 

 Fund for transmission to Miss Elles, who is debarred by circum- 

 stances over which she had no control from standing here to receive 

 for herself this mark of recognition which the Council of the Society 

 have bestowed upon her. 



The research by which she has won for herself a prominent 

 place among geologists might seem of limited scope to all but a few 

 who know the difficulty and the importance of the group of organisms 

 to which she has chiefly devoted her attention. 



I am much pleased, therefore, to be here to-day to testify that 

 Miss Elles, who is Assistant Demonstrator in my Department at 



