932 APPENDIX— KEITH, BRISBANE, NEILL, AND GUNNING PRIZES. 



III. THE NEILL PRIZE. 



1st Triennial Period, 1856-59. — Dr W. Lauder Lindsay, for his paper " 011 the Sperinogones and 



Pycnides of Filamentous, Fruticulose, and Foliaceous Lichens," 

 published in the Transactions of the Society. 

 2nd Triennial Period, 1859-62. — Robert Kaye Greville, LL.D., for his Contributions to Scottish 



Natural History, more especially in the department of Cryp- 

 togamic Botany, including his recent papers on Diatomacete. 

 3rd Triennial Period, 1862-65. — Andrew Crombie Ramsay, F.R.S., Professor of Geology in the 



Government School of Mines, and Local Director of the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain, for his various works and 

 memoirs published during the last five years, in which he 

 has applied the large experience acquired by him in. the 

 Direction of the arduous work of the Geographical Survey of 

 Great Britain to the elucidation of important questions bear- 

 ing on Geological Science. 

 4th Triennial Period, 1865-68. — Dr William Carmichael M'Intosh, for his paper "on the Struc- 

 ture of the British Nemerteans, and on some New British 

 Annelids," published in the Transactions of the Society. 

 5th Triennial Period, 1868-71. — Professor William Turner, for his papers "on the great Finner 



Whale ; and on the Gravid Uterus, and the Arrangement of 

 the Foetal Membranes in the Cetacea,'"' published in the 

 Transactions of the Society. 

 6th Triennial Period, 1871-74. — Charles William Peach, Esq., for his Contributions to Scottish 



Zoology and Geology, and for his recent contributions to Fossil 

 Botany. 

 7th Triennial Period, 1874-77. — Dr Ramsay H. Traquair, for his paper " on the Structure and 



Affinities of Tristiehopterus alatus (Egerton)," published in 



the Transactions of the Society, and also for his contributions 



to the Knowledge of the Structure of Recent and Fossil Fishes. 



8th Triennial Period, 1877-80. — John Murray, Esq., for his paper "on the Structure and Origin 



of Coral Reefs and Islands," published (in abstract) in the 

 Proceedings of the Society. 

 9th Triennial Period, 1880-83. — Professor Herdman, for his papers " on the Tunicata," published 



in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Society. 

 10th Triennial Period, 1883-86. — B. N. Peach, Esq., for his Contributions to the Geology and 



Palaeontology of Scotland, published in the Transactions of 

 the Society. 

 1 Itii Triennial Period, 1886-89. — Robert Kidston, Esq., for his Researches in Fossil Botany, pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Society. 

 12th Triennial Period, 1889-92.— John Horne, Esq., F.G.S., for his Investigations into the Geolo- 

 gical Structure and Petrology of the North- West Highlands. 

 13th Triennial Period, 1892-95. — Robert Irvine, Esq., for his papers on the action of Organisms 



in the Secretion of Carbonate of Lime and Silica, and on the 

 solution of these substances in Organic Juices. These are 

 printed in the Society's Transactions and Proceedings. 

 14th Triennial Period, 1895-98. — Professor Cossar Ewart, for his recent Investigations connected 



with Telegony. 

 15th Triennial Period, 1898-1901.— Dr John S. Flett, for his papers entitled "The Old Red 



Sandstone of the Orkneys" and "The Trap Dykes of the 

 Orkneys," printed in Vol. XXXIX. of the Transactions of 

 the Society. 

 16th Triennial Period, 1901-04. — Professor J. Graham Kerr, M.A., for his Researches on 



Leqridosiren paradoxa, published in the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society, London. 



