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now reveals to an admiring world the ancestral history of diverse existing mammals, 
such as the Camel, the Rhinoceros, and the Dog. 
More recently he organized an expedition into Patagonia, which, during three 
years of activity, proved equally fertile in results. These are now being set forth 
“in a series of exhaustive monographs, to which Professor Scott has already 
contributed a masterly account of the genealogy of the Rodents and of the 
Edentata. 
In his comprehensive grasp of the manifold relations which unite the great 
complex of the animal world, and by his philosophic conceptions of the course of 
organic evolution, Professor Scott ranks among the select few whom the future will 
number among the great paleontologists of the illustrious past. 
In asking you to receive this Medal for him, I beg you to assure him of the deep 
interest with which the Society follows his investigations, and to express the hope 
that he may live long to enrich our Science with discoveries no less important than 
those which we now celebrate. 
The Hon. Whitelaw Reid replied in the following words :— 
Mr. President,—I have much pleasure in appearing before this learned body, on 
behalf of my distinguished countryman, Professor Scott, to receive this Medal for 
him and in his name. 
I may venture also to assure you of his warm thanks, and of the high appreciation 
with which the great honour that you have thus conferred—the greatest within your 
gift—will be regarded by Professor Scott himself, and by the noted and very 
important institution with which he is connected—Princeton University, or ‘Old 
Nassau’, as its alumni love to call it. 
You have enhanced this honour by the cordial and gracious language in which you 
have been pleased to extend it. It is enhanced also by what I may perhaps call its 
family origin. We all know too well how family disputes are apt to be the worst 
and sometimes the most dangerous. Just so, no recognition of success is so sweet as 
that from the circle of kindred. A generous tribute like this, from the authoritative 
body of geologists in one branch of the great English-speaking family, for good 
work done by a leader in that important science in another branch of the same 
family, is peculiarly grateful to the recipient himself, and grateful also, as well as 
helpful and inspiring, to his University, to his friends, and in general to his 
countrymen. 
The President then handed the Murchison Medal, awarded to 
Professor Arthur Philemon Coleman, to the Right Hon. Lord 
Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., High Commissioner for 
the Dominion of Canada, for transmission to the recipient, addressing 
him as follows :— 
Lord Strathcona,—The Murchison Medal is awarded to Professor Coleman in 
recognition of his important contributions to geological science. 
During his long and distinguished occupation of the Chair of Geology in the 
University of Toronto, he has added largely to our knowledge of the history and 
formation both of the stratified systems and of the igneous rocks of Canada; nor has 
he restricted his attention to these, but has thrown much light on the origin of some 
of its most interesting scenery. He has travelled far and wide, and, bringing to 
bear the vast stores of information gathered in his journeys through North 
America, Europe, and Africa, he has increased the value of his researches by 
making use of the comparative method. The deposits of nickel ore at Sudbury have 
yielded to his investigations conclusions of fundamental importance, which have been 
recognized and enforced by the veteran author of Das Antlitz der Erde. No less 
important are the results of his researches on the Pleistocene Series in the vicinity of 
Toronto. His latest achievement—the discovery of glacial deposits in the Lower 
Huronian rocks of Canada—extends the evidence of uniformity into the remote past 
of the Protzon. 
I had many opportunities of admiring the enthusiasm and energy of Professor 
Coleman, when we were fellow-hammerers on the Dwyka Conglomerate, and it is 
with peculiar pleasure that I hand you this Medal, which I beg you to be good 
enough to transmit to him. 
