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acted ; and in awarding our first prize to Mr. 

 Smith, we believe that we have done honour to 

 our own body, and are sanctioned by the highest 

 feelings which bind societies together. 



" I think it a high privilege to fill this chair on 

 an occasion when we met, not coldly to deliberate 

 on the balance of conflicting claims, in which, after 

 all, we might go wrong, and give the prize to one 

 man by injustice to another; but to perform a sacred 

 duty, where there is no room for doubt or error, 

 and to perform an act of public gratitude, in which 

 the judgment and the feelings are united." * 



On this occasion Mr. Smith presented to the 

 society the original Table of Stratification drawn 

 in 1799, and a circle-map of the vicinity of Bath, 

 which had been geologically coloured about the 

 same period. 



The British Association, founded at York in 

 1 83 1, held its second meeting at Oxford in June, 

 1832 ; and on this occasion the Wollaston Medal, 

 awarded in the previous year, was put in Mr. 

 Smith's possession ; and he was further gratified 

 by the announcement that a pension of one 

 hundred pounds, solicited by the united voice of 

 English geologists, had been assigned him by the 

 Government of His Majesty William the Fourth. 



The meeting of the British Association was this 

 year (1839) appointed to be held at Birmingham, 

 on the 26th of August, and Mr. Smith received 



* Address to the Geological Society, at the Anniversary Meeting, 

 Feb. 18, 1 83 1, by the President, the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M.A., 

 F.R.S., etc. 



