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on the glaciation of North Lancashire still remains " a model and a basis for 

 Glacial work all over the country ' ' ; his observations on the faunas of the 

 Carboniferous ' reef-knolls ' of the North of England have put on record a wealth 

 of observation and reasoning which will contribute no little to the solution of 

 the problems presented by those remarkable structures ; and his researches 

 upon the raised beaches of Gower covered with Glacial deposits have extended 

 the area of known Pleistocene movement beyond Yorkshire and Cork. Those 

 who have been with him in the field have good cause to be especially grateful 

 to him for the generosity with which he has placed the riches of his knowledge 

 at their disposal. He has helped not only to advance geology but to make 

 geologists, and in so doing has invested his talent at compound interest. 



As a member of the Geological Survey, and one of the last of that body who 

 served under Sir Eoderick Murchison, he has well merited the award of the 

 medal which bears that honoured name. 



Professor Garwood expressed deep regret, which he felt was shared 

 by all present, that a sudden attack of influenza had prevented the 

 recipient from attending in person, and read, in accordance with 

 Mr. Tiddeman's request, the following reply : — 



" The award has given me the greatest possible pleasure and satisfaction, and 

 I owe to the President and Council my warmest thanks. 



' ' I regret that I have not done more to merit it ; but I hope that I may take 

 the award as signifying that some of my former heresies have been more or less 

 accepted as orthodoxies by my present friends and colleagues, and for this I may 

 go on my way rejoicing. 



"E. H. TlDDEMAN." 



In presenting one of the two Lyell Medals, awarded this year, to 

 Dr. Francis Arthur Bather, F.P.S., the President addressed him as 

 follows : — 



Dr. Bather, — To devote one's self to the mastery and elucidation of a single 

 group of organisms, and that a large one, demands in most cases so close an 

 application to the study that neither time nor energy is available for other 

 studies or occupations. This, however, has not been the case with you. Out- 

 side your own special orders of the Echinoderma, you have dealt with several 

 other groups of the In vertebra ta, and have been entrusted with the writing of 

 the British Museum Handbook on the fossil members of this division of the 

 animal kingdom. You have paid attention to the phenomena of denudation by 

 wind as well as to general stratigraphical questions. You have travelled far 

 and frequently in the pursuit of your comparative study of the Foreign and 

 Colonial Museums, and have contributed much information and many valuable 

 suggestions on Museum management, organization, and arrangement to your 

 colleagues in this work. You have brought your ideas and methods for the 

 popular exposition of Geology before the public at the recent International 

 Exhibitions in London, and in more than one case have been exceptionally 

 successful in achieving your objects. You have made yourself a recognized 

 authority on zoological nomenclature. 



But these are all by-products. You have ever kept before your mind the 

 steadfast resolve to bring into order, to systematize and classify, and to describe 

 clearly, faithfully, and precisely, certain important fossil forms of the 

 Echinoderma, and especially the Crinoids. I would particularly mention your 

 series of papers on British Fossil Crinoids, your important memoir on the 

 Crinoidea of Gotland, and your latest published work on the Triassic 

 Echinoderms of Bakony. Nor must I omit to add your important contribution 

 on Echinoderma to Sir Bay Lankester's Treatise on Zoology. 



In your task you have been so successful that the Council has decided to ask 

 you to accept this year a Lyell Medal, which was intended by its founder to be 

 awarded " for the encouragement of Geology or of any of the allied sciences by 

 which they shall consider Geology to have been most materially advanced ' ' . 



