l PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL society. [May 1902, 
enriched our knowledge of the stratigraphical divisions, but you 
have initiated a study of the life-zones—a study which has borne 
good fruit, and in which we anticipate from you further important. 
results. In addition to this, we are further indebted to you for 
the Monographs on Carboniferous Mollusca which you have con- 
tributed to the Paleontographical Society. 
AWARD oF THE Bartow-JamMEson Funp. 
In handing the Proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund, awarded 
to Mr. Wittram Maynarp Hourcntnes, F.G.S., of Neweastle-upon- 
Tyne, to Mr. Gzorez Barrow for transmission to the recipient, the 
President addressed him as follows :— 
Mr. Barrow,— 
In the midst of a busy professional life Mr. Hutchings has found 
time to carry out a series of laborious petrographical researches, 
and to contribute a number of important papers to the Geological 
Magazine and other scientific journals. 
He has especially directed his attention to the composition of the 
finer-grained sedimentary rocks, and to the changes which are pro- 
duced in them by normal decomposition and contact-action. The 
rocks on which he has worked have been comparatively neglected 
by petrologists, in consequence of the difficulties attending their 
investigation, but he has shown that, by the use of suitable sections 
and very high powers, these difficulties can be successfully sur- 
mounted. 
The Council of the Geological Society have awarded to Mr. Hutch- 
ings a grant from the Proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund, as a 
mark of their appreciation of his contributions to Petrographical 
Science, and as an expression of the hope that, in the future as in 
the past, he will be able to carry on the researches which have 
thrown so much light on the natural history of our sedimentary 
rocks, 
