"The Murchison Medal is an award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871. One of the closing public acts of Murchison\u2019s life was the founding of a chair of geology and mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh. Under his will there was established the Murchison Medal and geological fund (The Murchison Fund) to be awarded annually by the council of the Geological Society of London."@en .