anniversary meeting wollaston donation fund. 3 i 



Award of the >Yollaston Donation Fund. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. Benjamin N. Peach, F.G.S., and 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Peach, — 



In addition to yonr services to science as an officer of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Scotland — and how important those services have 

 been every geologist in recent years has had an opportunity of 

 judging — you have, in conjunction with your colleague and friend, 

 Mr. Horne, devoted your holidays to arduous labour in studying the 

 geology of the Orkneys and Shetlands. Both the glacial and the 

 volcanic phenomena of those islands have been admirably elucidated 

 by your joint researches. But besides your work in the field you 

 have devoted much attention to palreontological investigations ; and 

 your discoveries concerning the nature of the Carboniferous Arach- 

 nids and their allies have justly excited very great interest. To 

 aid you in the prosecution of such studies the Proceeds of the Wol- 

 laston Donation Fund have been awarded to you, and I feel sure that 

 one circumstance in connexion with this Fund will make the award 

 specially welcome to you. In the roll of names of those who have in 

 previous years received this distinction, will be found one, honoured 

 alike by you and by us, that of your lamented father, Mr. Charles 

 Peach. 



Mr. Peach, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — • 



I desire to express my cordial thanks for the honour now con- 

 ferred upon me. The pleasure derived from the pursuit of the 

 researches indicated by you has more than compensated for my 

 labour. It is, however, an additional gratification to me to know 

 that my investigations have been deemed worthy of recognition by 

 the Council of this Society. 



Award of the Murchison Medal. 



The President next presented the Murchison Medal to the Kev. 

 P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., and addressed him as follows: — 



Mr. Brodie, — 



Never probably has an award of this Society been made to one 

 who can look back upon so long a record of faithful services to 

 Geology as yourself. It is now 54 years ago since you became a 

 Member of this Society, at a time when the Founder of the Medal 

 which has now been awarded to you, occupied the Presidential Chair. 



