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laboured long in the field of Archaean and Proterozoic geology. Your kind and 

 •generous appreciation has, therefore, a personal as well as an official vahie. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Mr. Frederick William Eudler, 

 late Curator of the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, 

 the President addressed him as follows : — Mr. Eudler, — 



Our science demands for its progress not only men who discover new facts, but also 

 men who will explain and illustrate its facts and theories to those who are anxious 

 to understand and to make use of them. There are few among those who have been 

 both learners and workers in the science during the last thirty years who do not retain 

 grateful memories of the instruction and assistance which at one time or another you 

 have personally afforded them. 



Further, om- science needs for its appreciation by the economic world and the 

 public those who, being familiar with the facts already gathered together, mil 

 present them in a clear and convincing form, and expound their practical applications. 

 In this respect also you have done our science lasting service. Indeed, your long 

 official career at the Museimi of Practical Geology has been a record of unselfish 

 devotion to the advancement of the practical and educational sides of geology. 



In countless ways — in reviews, in the later editions of lire's famous " Dictionary 

 of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines"; in your masterly essays on "Experimental 

 'Geology," and on " Fifty Years' Progress in British Geology," delivered as 

 Presidential Addi-esses before the Geologists' Association— not to mention anthropo- 

 logical and other addresses, — you have given evidence of your wide knowledge of 

 the hteratui-e and substance of geology and the allied sciences, of your sound 

 judgment, and of youi- exceptional capacity for transmitting to others the accurate 

 knowledge which you possess. 



It affords, therefore, to the Council of the Geological Society the greatest satisfaction 

 to award to you the Lyell Medal, which, according to the words of its founder, is to 

 be given to one who "has deserved well of the science." 



Ml'. Eudler replied in the following words : — Mr. President, — 



To have the privilege of standing here as the recipient of a Medal is a far liigher 

 honour than I had ever dared to expect. While acknowledging most gratefully, 

 though I feel most inadequately, the generous action of the Council in making this 

 award, I am also anxious to express my deep sense of indebtedness to you, Sir, for 

 the very indulgent words with which you have been so good as to enrich this 

 presentation. If anything like personal detachment from such an award were 

 permissible, I should Uke to be allowed to regard this as a token of sympathy between 

 .this Society and the institution with which I was so long connected, and where the 

 ruling desire of every officer is — if I may use the words of the illustrious founder of 

 this bequest, which you have just quoted — to deserve well of geological science. 

 It is, Sir, a matter of extreme gratification to me that I should find myself unexpectedly 

 honoured by the possession of a Medal founded by our great master, whom it was 

 my privilege to know personally, and whose memory I so profoundly revere. 



The President then presented the Bigsby Medal to Dr. Henry M. 

 Ami, M.A., of the Canadian Geological Survey, addressing him as 

 follows : — Dr. Ami, — 



The members of the Geological Society who interest themselves in the Palajozoic 

 formations of Britain and America, are well aware of the extent and importance 

 ■of yoiu' Avork among the Palaeozoic rocks and fossils of Canada. As Assistant- 

 Palaeontologist to the Canadian Survey, you have not only been for many years 

 responsible for much of the classification and tabulation of the Lower Palaeozoic 

 fossils in the Museum of that Survey, but you have visited the places where they were 

 collected in the field, and identified on the spot their local horizons. This two-sided 

 knowledge has enabled you in several of your papers, such as those bearing on the 

 "Geology of Quebec and its Neighbourhood," the " Utica Terrane," and the 

 ^' Organic Remains and Geological Formations of the Eastern Townships," to throw 

 much light on disputed questions of succession and stratigraphy. 



jSTor has your work been restiicted to the older Palaeozoic rocks. Your papers on 

 the " Knoydart Formation of Nova Scotia," the "Carboniferous Formations of 



