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THE Council of the Geological Society of London has made the following awards for this year: Wollaston Medal, to Prof. Marcellin Boule, professor of palæontology in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, in recognition of the value of his researches concerning the mineral structure of the earth, and especially for his contributions to the geology and vertebrate pal|ontology of the Tertiary period; Murchison Medal, together with an award from the Murchison Geological Fund, to Dr. A. L. DuToit,consulting geologist, Johannesburg,in recognition of the value of his work, especially on the geology of South Africa; Lyell Medal, together with an award from the Lyell Geological Fund, to Mr. J. E. Richey, Geological Survey of Great Britain (Scottish Office), for his researches in the Tertiary volcanic geology of the British Isles; Bigshy Medal, to Mr. E. J. Wayland, director of the Geological Survey of Uganda, in recognition of the value of his geological researches, particularly in Uganda; Wollaston Fund, to Mr. A. Wrigley, for his work on the Tertiary Mollusca of the London district; Murchison Fund, to Mr. T. H. Whitehead, Geological Survey of Great Britain, in recognition of the value of his work on the Carboniferous and older rocks of the Midlands; a moiety of the Lyell Fund to Mr. A. Broughton Edge, in recognition of the value of his; geophysical work in application to geological problems; a second moiety of the Lyell Fund, to Mr. W. N. Edwards, Natural History Museum, in recognition of the value of his researches on fossil plants.
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Geological Society Awards. Nature 131, 159 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131159c0
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