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THE council of the Geological Society has made the following awards: Wollaston Medal to Prof. Maurice Lugeon, of the University of Lausanne, in recognition of the value of his researches on the mineral structure of the earth, particularly in respect of the geological structure of the Alps and of mountain building ; Murchison Medal to Dr. Henry Howe Bemrose, in recognition of his researches upon the igneous rocks of the Lower Carboniferous of Derbyshire, and also upon the Pleistocene fauna of the same area ; Lyell Medal to Dr. John Pringle for his services to palæontological science, and particularly in recognition of his work in connexion with the Geological Survey and Museum ; Wollaston Fund to Dr. Henry Francis Harwood, of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, in recognition of his research work on the chemistry of minerals and rocks; Murchison Fund to Dr. Frank Coles Phillips, for his contributions to metamorphism and structural petrologjf ; a moiety of the Lyell Fund to Dr. Sydney Ewart Hollingworth, for his work on the Lower Carboniferous rocks, and the structural geology of the Lake District and northern Pennines, and on the Vale of Eden glaciation; another moiety of the Lyell Fund to Dr. Frederick Murray Trotter, for his geological researches, especially on the glacial and post-glacial phenomena of the Eden Valley.
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Geological Society of London Awards. Nature 141, 154 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141154a0
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