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As a teacher Professor Eosenbusch lias especially excelled, and the devotion and' 

 enthusiasm both of himself and his pupils have greatly helped to awaken the interest 

 of geologists in petrological investigations, and to give to these investigations the 

 prominent position that they now occupy. 



The Council of the Geological Society make the award of their WoUaston Medal. 

 to Professor Eosenbusch in grateful appreciation of these pre-eminent services tO' 

 geological science. 



Professor Sollas, in reply, read the following letter which had 

 been forwarded by the recipient : — Mr. President, — 



"Although the Geological Society, for many years past, has accustomed me to. 

 a most benevolent judgment of my scientific work, I feel greatly surprised by the 

 award of the Wollaston Medal, the highest honour which the Council of this illus- 

 trious Society can bestow. I beg to offer my cordial thanks for this distinction, 

 which I thought far beyond the limits of my aspirations. 



' ' I may proudly confess to have passed a life of earnest and unceasing endeavour 

 in the attempt to understand and to decipher those grand and mysterious documents, 

 wherein the geological history of our mother Earth has been written down by Nature 

 itself ; but I am fully aware of the insignificance of the results obtained. Every 

 word which it is our good fortune to decipher involves a new riddle, and so I daily 

 repeat the first scientific experience of my infancy — that the art of spelling is a most 

 difficult one. 



"There are many members in tliis illustrious corporation to whom I owe a vast 

 debt of scientific information and of personal encouragement. The high honour 

 received at their hands on this day will be a stimulus to me for ever -renewed attempts- 

 to proceed on my onward way, yrjpdffKw 5'oiel iroWa. SiSaaicofievos . It will be, 

 indeed, a great satisfaction to me, if the rest of my life's work prove not unworthy 

 of the approbation of this ancient and renowned Society." 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to Dr. Charles 

 Callaway, M.A., addressing him in the following words : — 

 Dr. Callaway, — 



Your work among the ancient rocks of Shropshire — Murchison' s classical county — 

 commenced as early as 1874, when you brought before this Society evidences of th& 

 occurrence of Tremadoc fossils in the so-called ' Bala' rocks of that area; but your 

 conclusions were then in advance of the times. In your second paper, published in 

 1878, on a "New Area of Cambrian Eocks in Shropshire," however, you not only 

 demonstrated by means of the abundance of fossils the accuracy of those conclusions, 

 but you made that paper the starting-point of what, as afterwards carried out by 

 yourself and others, has effected almost a revolution in our previous knowledge of 

 much of the older half of Shropshire geology. 



You first suggested in that paper the Archaean age of the Wrekiu volcanic series, 

 and in several subsequent papers you not only showed the extension of these volcanic 

 and Cambrian rocks into the Caradoc area and elsewhere, but introduced into the 

 geological literature of our older rock-groups the names Uriconian, Lougmjmdiau, 

 and Malvernian. 



Your researches also in the Malvern HUls, in Anglesey, and in the compKcated. 

 Assynt and other regions of the North-Western Highlands were all of them most 

 fruitful in discovery, and stimulated the work of others in no ordinary degree. And 

 of youi' later researches into the obscure phenomena of the crystalline and metamorphic 

 rocks, much the same may be said. As one of those who have followed your track 

 to their great comfort and benefit, and as one who has for more than thirty years 

 been honoured by your friendship, it is a great pleasure to me to be permitted to hand, 

 you this Medal on behalf of the Council of the Geological Society. 



Dr. Callaway replied as follows : — Mr. President, — 



I am deeply sensible of the honour conferred upon me by the award of tliis Medal. 

 It is to me a special gratification that it bears the name of Murchison, for the greater 

 part of my work has been on ground rendered classic by his genius. We honour him 

 as one of the chief of those who laid the foundations of our knowledge of the oldest 

 rocks, and I am proud to have been able to add a few stones to the superstructure.. 

 That I recei\-e this distinction at your hands is a peculiar ]ileasure. You also have 



