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ing collected and marslialled. a most imposing array of facts and 
logical deductions in support of his theory. I do not need to 
remind the Society of the confirmation which his views have 
received from the results of the expedition of last summer to the 
interior of Greenland, which are the more remarkable that Baron 
Nordensjold went to Greenland in the design of disproving the 
existence of a continental ice-cap in that region, and returned con- 
vinced of its existence by the evidence of his own eyes and the 
reports of his explorers. 
Professor Geikie, I suppose, has not penetrated so far north, but 
we know that he has qualified himself for the exposition of the 
history of the Glacial Age by a careful study of all its phenomena, 
not only in Scotland, for which his connection with the Geological 
Survey offered peculiar facilities, but also on the Continent of 
Europe, and among the islands of the North Atlantic. Of these 
studies his published works, as well as his contributions to the 
transactions of scientific societies, offer ample evidence. His latest 
contribution is the paper on the Faroes, which appears in the 
Transaetions of this Society. In estimating the importance of that 
paper, it may be remarked that the geological interest of a country 
or group of islands, is not to be measured by their political and 
commercial importance. In this paper we find evidence that the 
Faroes have been covered by an ice-cap or mer de glace of 1400 feet 
in thickness, entirely local in its origin. The fact that ice has 
accumulated to so great a height in this relatively small area, makes 
the geological evidence applicable to the greater and more elevated 
ice-masses of the continent more significant, and perhaps more easy 
of reception and comprehension. I have no doubt the Society will 
approve of the nomination of Professor Geikie by the Council for 
the Makdougall-Brisbane Prize. 
The Council having awarded the Neill Prize for the Triennial 
Period 1880-83 to Professor Herdman, for his Papers in the Pro- 
ceedings and Transactions on the Tunicata — 
Mr John Murray, in explaining the grounds of the award, said 
— Professor Herdinan’s principal papers on the Tunicata may be 
divided into two groups, — 1st, those on British Ascidians, and 
2nd, those on the collections made during the “Challenger” ex- 
j^edition. 
