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Such researches naturally attract little attention outside the 
circle of mineralogists, but they are the sort of researches upon 
which accurate science is based. 
The Council have pleasure in marking their appreciation of your 
patient and effective labours by this Award, and hope that their 
recognition of your work will encourage you to proceed with 
similar investigations. 
AWARD OF THE Murcuison MEDAL. 
In presenting the Murchison Medal to Mr. Freperic Witriam 
Harmer, I'.G.8., the Presrpenr addressed him in the following 
words :— 
Mr. Harmer,— 
The Council of this Society have awarded to you the Murchison 
Medal, in recognition of your long-continued labours among the 
Phocene and later deposits of Hast Anglia. 
In speaking of your earlier work, it is impossible to separate your 
name from that of Searles V. Wood, Junior, who I believe discovered 
you on the Cromer coast nearly forty years ago, when you were 
trying to solve the riddle of its complicated Drifts. Wood, who 
had previously made a Drift Survey of the whole of Hssex on the 
scale of 1 inch to the mile, soon enlisted your services in Norfolk 
while he continued his work in Suffolk; and in the course of about 
four years you were together able to bring before the British 
Association at Norwich a summary of the results at which you had 
arrived, from the mapping of the Crag and Glacial Beds. Your 
map was published on a reduced scale by the Paleontographical 
Society in 1872, with a Memoir in which you and Mr. Wood 
elaborated many points touched upon in your previous work. These 
original surveys formed an excellent basis for your further researches 
into the structure and method of formation of these deposits, and for 
the labours of all who have followed in your footsteps. Freed from 
the cares of business and of municipal duties, which occupied much 
of your time in earlier years, your attention has latterly been given 
to a study of the minuter divisions of the Crag Series, not only 
in this country, but abroad—in Holland and Belgium: thereby, 
dealing with the zonal succession in the Crag Series and with the 
distribution of molluscan life generally in the Pliocene Period, you 
have enlarged our knowledge of the physical and climatal conditio 
