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geography cannot but be regarded as of the highest importance to the advancement 

 of both sciences, and the world has been made wiser by the rich stores of knowledge 

 which Prof. Suess has garnered for geologists and geographers in all countries. 



Prof. Suess has been connected with this Society since 1863, in which year I made 

 his personal acquaintance when he visited I-ondon He has now been a Foreign 

 Member since 1876, and is one of the three oldest foreign geologists on the Society's 

 list. His attachment to this country will be better understood when it is known 

 that Prof. Suess was born in London on the 20th of August, 1831, his father being 

 at that time a merchant in the City. 



I am sure it will add to Prof. Sues3's pleasure to be told that this Medal was 

 awarded him bv the unanimous vote of the Council, and that we send with it our 

 warmest remembrances and good wishes for his continued health and prosperity. 



Sir John Evans, in reply, said : — Mr. President. — 



The recipient of this award, whose professorial duties as well as his advancing 

 age prevent him from attending this meeting, has requested me to read the following 

 communication from him: — " By adding my name to the list of those masters of 

 geological science who have been honoured before me by the award of the Wollaston 

 Medal, your illustrious Society renders me truly proud, and I can hardly find words 

 adequate to express my feelings of gratitude. 



" In addition to field-work, I have for many years laboured to obtain some 

 approximately comprehensive view of the surface-structure of the whole of our 

 planet, and during this endeavour not a day has passed without bringing again and 

 again before my eyes the vastness of the British Empire, the worldwide activity 

 of British geologists and travellers, and the enormous amount of geological work and 

 learning recorded in the English language. 



" I often and gladly remember the kindness and the instruction which during the 

 course of my life I have received from my English masters, and above all from my 

 repeated intercourse with Sir Charles Lyell, but I dared not think that my own 

 modest essays would ever be deemed worthy of this distinction — the highest that 

 English geologists can bestow. 



" This, however, now comes to me at an age when the natural diminution of 

 physical strength confines me to valley and home ; hammer and belt rest on their 

 peg, and dreams and remembrances alone still carry me along those Alpine wanderings 

 which form the highest charms of our incomparable science, and in the lonely 

 grandeur of which Man feels himself more than ever a child of surrounding Nature. 



" In these hours of enforced inactivity, the award of your Society leads me to 

 hope that my past exertions have not been quite in vain ; and with deepest thanks 

 I receive this Medal as a token of indulgence, of encouragement, and also of 

 consolation." 



The President then presented to Alfred Harker, Esq., M.A., 

 F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of Scotland, and of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund, addressing him as follows : — Mr. Harker, — 



The Council request your acceptance of the "Wollaston Fund in recognition of 

 the admirable work in Petrology and your studies in the Metamorphic and Igneous 

 Bocks and in Dynamometamorphism, to which you have given such careful attention 

 since you joined our ranks a3 a Fellow in 1884. 



I have only to allude to your papers before this Society on the Gabbro of Carrock 

 Fell and its Granophyres : your penological notes on rocks from the Cross-Fell 

 Inlier ; your paper on the eruptive rocks of Sarn, Caernarvonshire ; your joint papers 

 with Mr. Marr on the Shap Granite and the associated Metamorphic Bocks, — to 

 show the nature of the work in which you have been engaged. 



Your Sedgwick Essay, on the Volcanic Bocks of Caernarvonshire, is a mode] ol 

 what such work should be. It has already received a well-merited encomium irom 

 your present chief, the Director-General of the Geological Survey. 



In the past twelve years you have also been a frequent contributor to the pages 

 of the Geological Magazine, in which some twenty articles of yours are to 

 be found. 



Lastly, your excellent "Petrology for Students," issued from the Cambridge 

 University Press last year, greatly adds to your credit in this field of research. 





