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THE following are the grounds for the awards of the Geological Society: Wollaston Medal to Dr. A. L. Day, for his researches in vulcanology and in the field of experimental petrology; Murchison Medal to Dr. Murray Macgregor, assistant director (Scotland) of the Geological Survey, for his work in Scottish geology and particularly the Carboniferous rocks; Lyell Medal to Mr. E. S. Pinfold, for his discoveries concerning the stratigraphy and structure of the oil-bearing regions of Burma and the North West Province of India; Bigsby Medal to Dr. C. J. Stubblefield, of the Geological Survey, for his work on the trilobites and on the stratigraphy and palæontology of the palæozoic rocks; Wollaston Fund to Dr. K. P. Oakley, of the British Museum (Natural History), for his work in palæontology and Pleistocene geology; Murchison Fund to Dr. J. Weir, of the University of Glasgow, for his researches in palæontology; a moiety of the Lyell Fund to Mr. W. Eltringham, of Crawcrook, for his work as a collector of fossil plants and arthropods from the Coal Measures; another moiety of the Lyell Fund to Dr. F. S. Wallis, deputy-director of the Bristol Museum, for his services to geology in Bristol.
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Awards of the Geological Society. Nature 147, 171 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147171a0
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