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marriage, tie gave himself only a life-interest in it, and decided 

 that the whole amount at his decease should go to the relations of 

 the ladies whom he had married and survived. Hence, from de- 

 licacy of feeling, he decided that instead of bequeathing a sum of 

 money to the Society for the purpose of founding a Medal, he 

 would provide the necessary funds out of his income during his 

 life ; and accordingly, in the above year, he gave the Society a sum 

 of money the interest of which was to be devoted to providing a 

 Medal to be given biennially, preferentially to those who had studied 

 American geology, w T ith the further stipulation that the receiver 

 should be not more than forty-five years old, and " thus probably not 

 too old for further work, and not too young to have done much." 

 At first the Medal was to have been of bronze and accompanied by 

 a sum. of money, the balance of the proceeds of the fund ; but 

 subsequently the founder increased the amount of his donation suf- 

 ficiently to enable the Council to give a Gold Medal. In 1877 the 

 Medal was awarded to Prof. 0. C. Marsh, and in 1879 to Prof. E. 

 D. Cope ; this year it goes to Dr. C. Barrois. 



Bey. James Clifton Ward. The announcement of the death 

 of Mr. "Ward must have been to most of his many friends wholly 

 unexpected, both on account of the early age at which he passed 

 away, and the very brief illness which preceded his decease. 



After a weakly boyhood he entered the E-oyal School of Mines 

 as a student in 1861, entirely through my suggestion, and gained 

 the Edward Forbes Medal and prize of books in 1864. In the 

 following year he joined the Geological Survey, and was sent down 

 to Yorkshire. He worked there on the Millstone-grit and Lower 

 Coal-measures in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, Penistone, Ilud- 

 dersfield, Halifax, and Leeds. Though Ward was never of robust 

 appearance, he obviously improved in health after leaving the School 

 of Mines ; so well did the laborious but healthy work of the Survey 

 agree with him. 



In 1869 he was transferred to Keswick ; and the change from a 

 colliery district to a locality not only devoid of coal-pits, but one 

 in which wild Nature puts forth all her charms, was in the highest 

 degree pleasing to him. At Keswick his activity became twofold. 

 His Survey work and its results are now represented by his Geo- 

 logical Survey memoir on the Geology of the Northern part of 

 the English Lake District (published in 1876), and by numerous 

 maps and sections. He also contributed to the Geological Society, 

 and to various periodicals, many papers bearing on the structure 

 of the Lake Country. Of these may be mentioned, in the first 

 piace, two on its glaciation, entitled, " The Origin of some of the 

 Lake Basins of Cumberland " (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1874), and 

 " The Glaciation of the Southern Part of the Lake District " &c. 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1875). In both papers the origin of 

 the lakes is discussed ; and (as regards the English Lake country) 

 the original investigations of the author tend to confirm the views 

 so long held by Prof. A. C. Eamsay. These papers are illustrated 



