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This slight recognition from the Council may servo to assure you how highly your 

 past work has been appreciated, ami how much more good work we trust that you 

 will live to achieve. 



Mr. Marker, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — 



I heartily thank the Council for the honour which they have conferred upon me, 

 and yourself for the graceful words with which you have accompanied this award. 



In the work to which you have made kind reference, 1 have confined myself to 

 only one among the several lines of research recognized by this Society. I have, 

 however, always regarded Petrology, not as a study apart, but as a branch of 

 geological science; and whatever value may belong to my results, I owe in large 

 measure to the fortunate Oircumstances which have enabled me constantly to combine 

 work in the field with work in the laboratory. 



Generous appreciation at the hands of those best qualified to judge is an incentive 

 second only to the pleasure of the work itself. To the encouragement which 1 have 

 at all times derived from the comradeship of fellow-workers, both at Cambridge and 

 elsewhere, is now added that which must always attach to such an honour as the 

 present one ; and for the encouragement, no less than for the recognition, 1 tender 

 my best thanks. 



In presenting the Mnrchison Medal to T. Mellard Keade, Esq., 

 C.E , P.G.S., the President said :— Mr. Mellard Reade,— 



The Council of the Geological Society have awarded to you the Mnrchison Medal, 

 in recognition of your work on "The Origin of Mountain Ranges," containing the 

 records of much original and experimental research. Since you joined tbis Society 

 in 1872 you have contributed to the various scientific journals, and to this and other 

 kindred institutions, more (ban a hundred papers on geological subjects, treating of 



" the Geology and Physics of the post- Glacial Period in Lancashire and Cheshire," 



"the Buried Valley of the Mersey," "the Drift-beds of the North-west of 

 England," " the Chalk-masses in the Contorted Drift of Cromer," "Tidal Action 

 as a Geological Cause," "the Moon and the Earth," and many other kindred 

 Subjects bearing Upon Dynamical Geology, to which you have devoted much careful 

 thought and originality id' observation extending over more than a quarter of a 

 century, and have never permitted an opportunity to slip of adding to our store of 

 geological knowledge. 



Tins medal will serve to assure you that, although not often present, at our 

 meetings, and living at a distance from town, you are neither overlooked nor 

 forgotten by your fellow -geologists here, nor have your labours been unappreciated. 



Mr. Mellard lleade replied as follows: — Mr. President,— 



Tt is with mingled feelings, diflicult, nay impossible, to express here, that I receive 

 the medal founded by the illustrious author of " Siluria," which the Council of (bis 



Society, in the exercise of their functions, have thought lit, to award to me. [f one 



Circumstance more than another could add to the pleasure which the award affords 

 me, it is, Dr. Woodward, that 1 receive it through you as President of this Societj 



I cannot forget that my first little geological venture was launched in the columns 

 of the Geological Magazine, and that ever since you have proved to be a true 



and consistent, friend. 



As regards the work and researches of which you have so favourably spoken, it is 

 lor others to assess their value, and for me to rejoice that thej have been considered 



worthy of so hiindsome a recognition. Like the founder of this medal, I began the 

 study of geology in middle life, and doubtless the direction and the character of my 

 researches have been profoundly influenced by previous professional training as well 



as by natural bias. The study of geology has been to me a labour of love as well as 

 an interesting and healthful recreation. It, has also been an education. Doubtless 

 some ol the work to which I have directed my attention has been of an arduous 



nature, but, as Shakespeare says, "The labour we delight, in physics pain." 



It, now only remains for me to thank the Council and yourself lor this much 



appreciated recognition of my small services to geological science, and to assure you 



that the addition of my name to the distinguished list id' Mnrchison medallists is 

 calculated to inspire and support me in any lint her work which in Cod's providence 

 I may be permitted to carry out. 



