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LXIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Anniversary Proceedings, February 19th, 1836. 
FTER the usual Reports had been read, (which are printed in 
the “ Proceedings ” of the Society,) the President announced the 
award of the Wollaston Medal and Proceeds for the past year; and, in 
doing so, said, 
GENTLEMEN, 
You havelearnt from the Report of the Council that the Wollaston 
Medal has been awarded to Mr. Agassiz of Neuchatel for his work 
on Fossil Ichthyology, and that the sum of 25/. from the Donation 
Fund has been awarded by the Council to Mr. Deshayes in promo- 
tion of his labours in fossil conchology. I shall now proceed to re~ 
quest Mr. Broderip to communicate this adjudication to his friend 
Mr. Agassiz, and I shall deliver in charge to our Foreign Secretary, 
Mr. De la Beche, the sum which has been voted to Mr. Deshayes. 
The President then addressed Mr. Broderip in these words :-— 
Mr. Broprrip, 
I have great pleasure in requesting you to inform Mr. Agassiz, of 
Neuchatel, that the Council of the Geological Society have awarded 
the Wollaston Medal to him for his work of last year on Fossil Ich~ 
thyology. Ona former occasion we presented the proceeds of the 
Donation Fund for one year to the same distinguished naturalist, to 
assist him in the publication of the early part of his great work, the 
importance of which was then only beginning to be known to the 
scientific world. 
It will ever be a subject of gratification to us to have learnt that 
this small pecuniary aid was not without its influence in accelerating 
the publication of his ‘“ Researches on Fossil Fish,’ arriving as it 
did opportunely at a moment when the funds which could be appro- 
priated for the undertaking were nearly exhausted. Mr. Agassiz 
acknowledged at the time his obligation to us for a mark of 
sympathy and regard which he received so unexpectedly from a 
foreign country, and which cheered and animated him to fresh ex- 
ertions. You will have the kindness to acquaint him that the 
Council in now awarding the Medal to him, are desirous that he 
should possess a lasting testimony of their esteem and of the high 
sense which they entertain of the merit of his scientific labours. 
Mr. Broprrip replied,— 
Srr.—I accept the trust: and permit me, on the behalf of Pro- 
fessor Agassiz, to offer his best thanks to the Society for the seal 
which it has this day set on the powerful zoological lever which he 
has placed in the hands of Geologists. 
This crowning gift will be doubly precious to him when he reflects 
on the high character of those who have awarded it, and hears of 
the expressions with which you, Sir, have been pleased to accom- 
pany it. 
These, he will feel, are the incentives 
“ that the clear spirit do raise 
To spurn delights and live laborious days.” 
