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Lord Strathcona said— 
that he was greatly honoured and pleased to be the medium of transmitting the 
Medal to Professor Coleman, on whose behalf he ventured to express his warmest 
thanks. He added that this was not the first occasion on which he had acted as 
interpreter to the Canadian branch of the great English-speaking family of the high 
esteem in which the old Motherland held the brilliant work accomplished by 
Canadian geologists. 
The President then presented the Lyell Medal to Dr. Arthur 
Vaughan, B.A., addressing him in the following words :— 
Dr. Vaughan,—The Lyell Medal is awarded to you in recognition of your 
distinguished services to Geology, especially in establishing the order of the Faunal 
Succession in the Lower Carboniferous rocks of Britain. 
In your earlier studies of the Jurassic zones with their teeming fossils, you 
acquired a mastery over the investigation of the known which enabled you to venture 
with confidence into unexplored regions. Thanks to your researches, the Avon 
Gorge, once famous for its beauty, has now become no less famous as a scale of 
geological time. 
From all sides—Wales, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, and remote parts of 
Britain—geologists, attracted by this long-desired means of correlation, have 
hastened on pilgrimage to Clifton, where, under your illuminating teaching, they 
haye been made familiar with all the mysteries of the new standard of reference. 
How fortunate have been the results the pages of our Journal bear witness ; our 
knowledge of the stratified crust has been enriched by a whole chapter, and the 
method of William Smith has once more achieved a triumph. 
Of your power to instruct I speak with experience, for I was your pupil when last 
I visited the Avon section; this recollection adds to the pleasure with which, in 
the name of the Council, I hand you this award. 
Dr. Vaughan replied as follows :— 
_ My. President,—Nothing could have given me greater delight, or have come at 
@ More opportune moment, than the news of the award to me of the Lyell Medal. 
With the zeal for fresh labours partly dulled by a long illness, this eagerly desired 
prize came as a welcome spur, restoring self-confidence by assuring me of the 
sympathy of brother geologists. As yet, sir, I can only hope that, some day, I may 
have done more to deserve this great honour and the kind words with which you 
have so generously accompanied its bestowal. 
My thanks are rendered heartily and, in very truth, humbly to the Council of the 
Geological Society and to the many Fellows who have so kindly approved of their 
selection. I cannot allow this unique opportunity to slip of acknowledging how 
much my work owes to the inspiring advocacy of two staunch and long-time friends, 
Professor 8. H. Reynolds and Mr. EK. E. L. Dixon. 
In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 
Donation Fund to Mr. Edward Battersby Bailey, B.A., the President 
addressed him in the following words :— 
Mr. Bailey,—The Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund has 
been awarded to you by the Council in recognition of the value of your investigations 
into the Carboniferous System of Scotland and the structure of the Glen Coe area. 
After carrying out successful investigations on the geology of East Lothian, especially 
in relation to the Glacial phenomena, the volcanic rocks, and the Coal-measures of 
that district, you, in your paper written conjointly with Mr. C. T. Clough and 
Mr. H. B. Maute on the Caldron Subsidence of Glen Coe, analysed with great skill 
a structure of remarkable complexity, and succeeded in tracing the successive stages 
of its formation, thus obtaining results which have an important bearing on some of 
the obscurer problems of volcanic and tectonie phenomena. 
The Society hopes that your powers of exact observation and imaginative insight 
may be exercised with equal success upon the new and difficult problems which again 
confront you in the West of Scotland. 
