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copper, lead, and zinc industries to a very considerable extent. Even so, 

 I feel sure that our mineral and metal products will be greatly increased in 

 the future, and we believe that our resources in that direction have been 

 hardly scratched. To exemplify this, I would remind you that the 

 wonderful silver deposits at Cobalt, in Ontario, we only discovered by 

 chance, although lumbering had been carried on over that district for a 

 great many years. The Ontario Government built a line of railway from 

 the Canadian Pacific into the North country, and in so doing crossed this 

 great silver deposit, which is still producing heavily. 



As representing Canada, I am proud to receive this Medal on account of 

 our Dominion, as well as on account of Mr. Tyrrell personally. It seems 

 peculiarly appropriate at this time that this honour should be given by 

 this old and important Society to a Canadian, and we appreciate the same 

 greatly. 



I accept the Medal on behalf of Mr. Tyrrell with grateful thanks, and it 

 will give me much pleasui'e to forward it to him and commvinicate the 

 very kind words with which you, Mr. President, have accompanied it. 



The President then handed the Prestwich Medal, awarded to 

 Professor William Boyd Dawkins, F.li.S., to Dr. A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, for transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows: — 



Dr. Smith Woodward,— The Prestwich Medal has this year been 

 awarded to Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, and there will appear, I think, a 

 peculiar fitness in the choice which links together these two names. 

 Much of the geological work which here receives recognition is such as 

 would especially appeal to the Founder of this Medal, and did in his life- 

 time engage his lively interest. ^ 



During fifty-six years Prof. Dawkins has contributed nearly thirty papers 

 to the Quarterly Journal of this Society, in addition to numerous works 

 published elsewhere. His researches in British cave-deposits and in 

 mammalian palaeontology have long been well known and highly valued. 

 He has shown that mammalian remains can be used in the classification of 

 the Tertiary strata, and in many ways has cast light upon some interesting 

 chapters in the later geological history of Europe. In another direction he 

 has made important additions to our knowledge of the geology of the Isle 

 of Man. His long connexion with the Victoria University and the support 

 which he has given to the Manchester Geological Society have done much 

 to promote the study of geology in Lancashire, and his well-known 

 publications Gave Hunting and Early Man in Britain met the needs of a 

 wide circle of readers. 



Even more, perhaps, will the name of Prof. Dawkins be always associated 

 with the discovery of the Kentish Coalfield, in which he guided to a 

 successful issue an enterprise that had already exercised the mind of 

 Prestwich himself. The site of the boring at Dover was selected after a 

 careful survey of the district, and much patient labour was expended on 

 the examination of the cores and the identification by their fossils of the 

 several geological horizons pierced. Apart from the material success 

 realized, there was in this way accumulated a body of information which 

 has important applications to the stratigraphy and tectonics of South- 

 Eastern England. 



On behalf of the Council, I ask you to transmit this Medal to Prof. Boyd 

 Dawkins in token that he has indeed, in the words of the Founder, " done 

 well for the advancement of the science of Geology." 



Dr. Smith Woodward replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President, — I have much pleasure in receiving this Medal on 

 behalf of Prof. Boyd Dawkins, on whom it has been so worthily bestowed. 

 He desires me to express his regret that an unavoidable engagement in 

 Manchester prevents him from being present to-day to return his thanks 

 in person. 



