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You have been pleased to refer to my official work on the Geological Survey of the 

 United Kingdom, as well as to that of a more personal nature. It has been my lot 

 to serve under four successive chiefs, namely, De la Beche, Murchison, Ramsay, and 

 Dr. Geikie, whose names will ever he associated with the early history and progress 

 of geological science ; and I may truly say that from each and all I received that 

 encouragement and support which is essential to the hearty fulfilment of the duties 

 of a public servant ; and I am glad to have this opportunity of saying that in bring- 

 ing the Geological Survey of Ireland to its completion I have been associated with 

 colleagues in this work who have combined an earnest desire to fulfil their duties to 

 the public service with no small amount of enthusiasm in carrying on scientific 

 investigation. In view of my pending retirement from this department of the public 

 service. I am somewhat consoled by the hope that, in consequence, I may be enabled, 

 at no distant day, to take a more active part in the work of this great Society' than 

 has hitherto been possible. In conclusion, I have only to express my thanks to you, 

 Mr. President, for the kind words in which you have communicated to me the award 

 of the Council ; these will be an incentive to further effort in the cause of geological 

 investigation. 



The President then presented the Lyell Medal to Prof. T. Rupert 

 Jones, F.R.S., and addressed hirn as follows : — 



Professor Rupert Jones, — There is unusual pleasure in presenting one of the chief 

 awards in the gift of the Council to a geologist who has been so long and so honour- 

 ably associated with the Geological Society as yourself, and the appropriateness of 

 the award is not decreased by the circumstance that your official connexion with the 

 Society commenced when the great geologist who founded this medal was President. 

 Since that time, now forty years ago, you have written much on various fossil 

 organisms, but especially on Entomostraca and Foraminifera, and in many cases, and 

 especially amongst the bivalve crustaceans of the older rocks, it is largely to your 

 researches that we are indebted for our present knowledge of the forms. You have 

 also devoted much time and attention to the geology of South Africa, and to bringing 

 together the scattered information that we possess concerning the geology of that 

 interesting region. 



In placing the Lyell Medal in your hands I can only add that I think the Council 

 have carried out the intentions of Sir Charles Lyell, and that they are justified in 

 believing that, in his words, " the Medallist has deserved well of the Science." 



Prof. T. Rupert Jones, in reply, said : — .Acknowledging, with respectful thanks, 

 the unexpected honour with which the Council, on the part of the Society, has 

 favoured me, I beg to state that, in following the study of those branches of geo- 

 logical science to which opportunity and other circumstances have led me to give my 

 best attention, I cannot claim to have been so successful, or so useful, or deserving 

 of such honourable recognition as the Council, in their kindness towards an old 

 worker, seem to have considered me to be. 



Thanks to a natural disposition to study both living and fossil organisms, and to 

 look with confidence for signs of the great Divine laws governing the earth and all 

 its belongings, my humble part has been, as far as possible, that of a true " Minister 

 et Inierpres Naturae." 



No great discovery, however, nor signal success in elucidating the problems offered 

 for our study, in the organic and the inorganic world, has been attained by me. 

 Persistent and, may be, an industrious search among geological facts for their causes 

 and history, and among fossils, especially microzoa, for evidence of their exact 

 relationships, to the end that our knowledge of these things should be more perfect 

 and more useful, has occupied much of my intellectual life. 



How far the Foraminifera, Ostracoda, and Phyllopoda have been already, or will 

 in the future be useful palseontological guides to the geologist cannot be noticed here. 



In all that I have done my work has been my pleasure, and I can claim no reward 

 for it ; and in all that has been good I have to acknowledge warmly the co-opei - ative 

 help given by W. K. Parker, J. VV. Kirkby, H. B. and G. S. Brady, Henry Wood- 

 ward, and C. D. Sherborn ; and in just now completing the Supplemental Monograph 

 of the Cretaceous Entomostraca I have had the kind aid of G. J . Hinde. 



This Medal, Sir, bequeathed by my old and revered friend Sir Charles Lyell, and 

 the other Awards given so graciously this day by the Council and yourself, on behalf 

 of the Geological Society, bear striking and pleasant testimony to the fact that the 

 good deeds of great and good men live after them. 



