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those who have served as Officers, that the full extent of the 

 indebtedness of the Society to you is known. You combine the 

 offices of Assistant Secretary, Clerk, Librarian, Editor of the Journal, 

 and Curator of the Museum, and each of these offices, whether the 

 duties are performed by you personally or under your general 

 supervision, is filled to the great advantage of the Society. 

 Authors of papers owe you a deep debt of gratitude for the help 

 that they have received from you in editing their papers ; indeed, 

 such trust have they in your judgment, that they are almost too 

 liable to leave the whole of the burden of seeing their papers through 

 the press in your hands. 



If it were necessary for me to allude to actual geological work done 

 by you, I have only to mention the Index to the first Fifty Volumes 

 of the Quarterly Journal, which was completed by you outside 

 your official hours, and has proved of immense value to all writers in 

 geology. But in handing you this award of the Wollaston Donation 

 Fund, I trust rather that you will receive it as a mark of appreciation 

 by the Council and Fellows of your able and conscientious services 

 to the Society and to geology as Assistant Secretary and Editor of 

 the Journal, and I can only conclude with the hope that we may 

 have the advantage of your services for many years to come. 



Award op the Murchison Geological Fund. 



The President, in handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, awarded to Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, of 

 Edinburgh, to Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., for transmission to 

 the recipient, addressed him in the following words : — 



Dr. Woodward, — 



Mrs. Gray has devoted the leisure-hours of nearly half a lifetime 

 to collecting in the field and arranging in her cabinets the fossils 

 of the Ordovician and Silurian rocks of the Girvan district of 

 Ayrshire. The palaeontology bears so closely on the structure 

 of this complicated region, that a detailed knowledge of it is 

 indispensable to any geologist who attempts to unravel that 

 structure. 



