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been so thorough, his insight so deep, and his outlook so wide, that in every 

 subject which he has touched his work has become a mine of fact, a model of 

 expression, an example of close and accurate reasoning, and a revelation of new 

 principles. In an age of specialization he is a specialist, but a specialist in 

 almost every branch of his science. That it should have fallen to one man 

 to do so much and so well almost passes belief, but our libraries are enriched by 

 his books and memoirs, and the work of our young men is inspired, improved, 

 and encouraged by his example. 



We ask your Excellency to transmit this Medal to Professor Brogger, and 

 with it to convey to him the deepest respect of his British colleagues, and the 

 best wishes of his many friends in this country. 



The Norwegian Minister expressed his pride and pleasure in 

 receiving on behalf of his distinguished countryman and friend the 

 highest award which it was in the power of so venerable and learned 

 a Society to confer, and read the following communication which had 

 been sent to him by Professor Brogger : — 



' ' Twenty years ago the Geological Society of London did me the great honour- 

 to award me the Murchison Medal. The Society now having awarded to me 

 its highest honour, the Wollaston Medal, I am led to hope that also during 

 the two decenniums that have elapsed, I have been able to yield some con- 

 tribution of general interest to geological science. 



" Allow me on this occasion to assure you that no other appreciation could 

 have been more unexpected or more valued by me than the unanimous award 

 of the Wollaston Medal by the Council of the Geological Society, an honour so 

 surprising to me that even in my dreams I could never have expected to attain 

 it. I am therefore so much the more grateful for this kind valuation of my 

 scientific results. 



"The roll of the Wollaston Medal, from the time of its first recipient, the 

 great master, William Smith, until this day. comprises an unsurpassed series of 

 founders and constructors of various branches of geological science. Looking 

 on this roll, comprising also a number of those who were my valued instructors 

 in my youth — the few still living amongst them being now seniors and Nestors 

 of their science — I obtain an excellent scale of the high importance of such 

 an appreciation from the oldest and most renowned Geological Society of the 

 world. 



l: At the same time, these dear old illustrious names on the roll speak to me 

 as a sad and serious memento of the short lifetime that is left, a reminder to 

 devote the few years that may still remain for me to complete my main lifework, 

 The History of the Eruptive Province of the Kristiania Region, the finishing 

 of which, by the force of circumstances, has been interrupted and postponed by 

 official duties for several years. 



" Bespectfully thanking you for this precious memento, I bow my head, and 

 will do my best to follow its voice. 



' " W. C. Brogger. 



" Kristiania, Februarxj 9, 1911." 



The President then handed the Murchison Medal, awarded to 

 Mr. Bichard Hill Tiddeman, M.A., to Professor E. J. Garwood, 

 Sec.G.S., for transmission to the recipient, and addressed him in the 

 following words : — 



Professor Garwood, — Ever since the beginning of Mr. Tiddeman's work 

 for the Geological Survey on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire, he has 

 kept his eyes open to the observation of exceptional facts and his mind 

 employed in working out explanations for them. Thus he has endowed our 

 science with the fertile suggestions which make workers think on new lines. 

 The excavation of the Victoria Cave, with which he had so much to do, gave 

 us valuable information on the history of the Pleistocene Mammalia ; his work 



