ANNIVERSARY MEETING — MURCHISON MEDAL AND FUND. 



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really founded. On all accounts it is with much pleasure that I 

 hand to you the Wollaston Medal. 



Professor Duncan, in reply, said, — 



Mr. President, — 



The gift which you have presented to me, in the name of the 

 Geological Society, I receive with feelings of great respect and 

 thankfulness. This Medal comes to me bringing a twofold pleasure ; 

 for it is a distinction which has been hallowed and ennobled from 

 its reception by a long succession of illustrious men, amongst whom 

 were the founders of our science, our teachers, and many of our 

 best friends ; and because, in presenting it to me, you have spoken 

 so sympathetically in appreciation of my scientific work — work 

 which I have been enabled to bring before the world in consequence 

 of the advantages which this Society has placed within my reach. 

 Cheered by this expression of your approbation, I shall labour on 

 in this our common and much-loved science, endeavouring always 

 to merit the esteem of the Eellows of this Society. 



Award oe the Murchison Medal. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to Prof. 

 Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., E.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — ■ 



Prof. Geikie, — 



If any one Eellow of our Society more than another could be 

 selected to receive the Murchison Medal for his valuable contri- 

 butions to Geology, it would be yourself ; since no man living has 

 contributed more to the advancement of that science which it is the 

 special object of our Society to cultivate and diffuse. Your labours 

 in the field connected with your duties as Director of the Geolo- 

 logical Survey of Scotland, your learned and valuable contributions to 

 the Journal of our Society, the Transactions of the Eoyal Society 

 of Edinburgh, the Glasgow Geological Society, and other pub- 

 lications too numerous to mention, eminently qualify you to be the 

 recipient of the Medal founded by your late chief and friend Sir 

 Roderick Murchison. To enumerate your contributions to the 

 literature of the geology of Scotland, or your many important 

 writings connected with our science, would lead me too far 

 ■ — some thirty papers, besides educational works, have resulted 

 from your industry and knowledge. Your able paper on the " Old 

 Red Sandstone of Scotland," published in the Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, would of itself entitle you to the highest 

 consideration of the Society. Able, indeed, are other contributions, 

 especially those " On the Chronology of the Trap Rocks of Scot- 



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