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Her collections have been of more than ordinary value, because of 

 the careful record that she has kept from the first of the exact locality 

 and horizon at which each fossil was collected. She has generously 

 placed her specimens at the disposal of all geologists and palaeonto- 

 logists engaged in the study of the Palaeozoic rocks and fossils, and 

 a large number of them have been described in the monographs of 

 Davidson, Nicholson, Etheridge, and others. When working in the 

 Girvan district, the officers of the Geological Survey of Scotland 

 checked their own collection by that of Mrs. Gray, and paid a well- 

 earned tribute to its value by publishing in their Memoir on the 

 Silurian Rocks of Southern Scotland a full list of all her fossils, sup- 

 plementary to their own. My own personal indebtedness to the 

 collections made by Mrs. Gray and her family, when I was working 

 at the geology of that district, was especially great ; and it affords 

 me no ordinary gratification to be able to hand to you, for trans- 

 mission to her, the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison 

 Geological Fund, on behalf of the Council of this Society. 



Dr. Woodward, in reply, read the following letter which had 

 been forwarded to him by the recipient : — 



' Dear Dr. Woodward, 



' I am gratified to learn that you intend to be present at the Anniversary 

 Meeting of the Geological Societj', and I thank you for your kindness in allowing 

 me to nominate you to receive for me on that occasion the Murchison Fund, 

 awarded by the Council of the Society in consideration of what you too generously 

 characterize as "great services to Geological Science." 



' My work in the Girvan district, among the fossils of the Silurian rocks, has 

 been to me a lifelong pleasure, augmented of late years by the knowledge that my 

 collection has proved of service to the Geological Survey of Scotland, as well as to 

 individual geologists — to name among these but the late Dr. Thomas Davidson. 



' It is incumbent on me, however, to record that my husband, the late Mr. Robert 

 Graj r , taking a keen interest in my pursuits, shared with me during many years the 

 agreeable task, not only of searching for fossils, but of helping to work them out 

 when found, so that it is difficult for me, in the present circumstances, to repress a 

 pang of regret that he cannot likewise participate in my satisfaction at the Geological 

 Society's very gracious recognition of what, to some extent, was our joint work. 



' I value very highly the honour conferred upon me, and beg you to convey to the 

 Council my grateful thanks and sincere acknowledgments.' 



