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THE following awards have recently been made by the Geological Society: Wollaston Medal to M. Emmanuel de Margerie, honorary professor in the University of Strasbourg and formerly head of the Service géologique d'Alsace et de Lorraine, in recognition of his researches “on the Mineral Structure of the Earth”, especially in the Jura Mountains of France, and for his bibliographical work ; Murchison Medal to Dr. Leonard Hawkes, head of the Geological Department of Bedford College and reader in geology in the University of London, for his researches on Icelandic geology and on rocks in the glassy state ; Lyell Medal to Dr. R. H. Rastall, for his researches into the petrology and structure of the Mesozoic rocks of eastern England and for his editorship of the Geological Magazine ; Wollaston Fund to Mr. James L. Begg, of Glasgow, for his studies on the geology and palaeontology of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Girvan district ; Murchison Fund to Dr. Alan Wood, demonstrator in geology in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, for his palseontological researches, notably on Carboniferous faunas and the evolution of the Foram-inifera. Lyell Fund: one moiety to Dr. William Pulfrey, of the Mining and Geological Department, Kenya Colony, for his work on Palaeozoic sediments of North Wales and on the Kavirondo area of Kenya Colony ; another moiety to Mr. Percy T. Cox, for his researches on the Cretaceous Foraminifera and on the stratigraphy of the Persian Gulf.
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Geological Society of London: Awards. Nature 157, 100 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157100b0
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