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associated with the name of one whose memory will ever be honoured by students of 
Geological science. ‘To a very special degree, however, and in a very special sense— 
a sense only to be fully comprehended by those similarly placed—is there a gratifi- 
cation and a stimulus in such an award to a worker so untortunately isolated by his 
geographical position as it is my lot to be, and with such limited opportunities of 
coming in contact with his fellow-workers. The pleasure I have felt has been 
enhanced by the friendly words of encouragement and approbation in which you, 
Mr. President, have seen fit to speak of my past work. If I cannot feel that I have 
sufficiently deserved, by anything I have yet been able to accomplish, the high 
honour I have to-day received, I can assure the Council and Fellows that I shall do 
what in me lies to make myself more fully worthy of it in the future. 
The President then presented one moiety of the Balance of the 
Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Arthur Humphreys 
Foord, F.G.8., and addressed him in the following terms :— 
Mr. Foord,—Your skill with the microscope and pencil have stood you in good 
stead in investigating and illustrating the minute structures of many wonderful 
fossils from the older rock-masses of our globe. To our knowledge of some of these 
remarkable organisms, which alike from their aberrant characters and from the very 
remote period at which they lived, must ever have the greatest fascination both for 
Geologists and Biologists, you have made some very valuable contributions ; and the 
Council of this Society trust that an Award from the Lyell Fund will serve as a 
stimulus and aid to you in carrying on these and kindred researches. 
Mr. Foorp, in reply, said: —Mr. President,—I beg to return my warmest thanks 
to the Council of the Geological Society for this most acceptable and quite unlooked- 
for mark of their approval of the slight services I may have rendered to Geological 
Science. While the gift itself will afford me material aid in the further prosecution 
of my paleontological studies, the thought that I have been deemed worthy of such 
a great distinction will add a new impulse to those labours. 
The President next presented the second moiety of the Balance of 
the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Thomas Roberts, 
F.G.S., and addressed him as follows :— 
Mr. Roberts,—Among the most valuable methods for solving the great problems 
of stratigraphical geology is the one which has been chosen by yourself, namely, the 
direct comparison of a series of beds and of their characteristic fossils in one typical 
district with those of another and now isolated area. The Council of the Geological 
Society, hoping to encourage you in work of this kind, so well begun, have awarded 
you a portion of the Fund bequeathed to us by one who was among the first to 
recognize the value, and to pursue with success that method of research in which 
you are now engaged. 
Mr. Roxerts, in reply, said :—Mr. President and Gentlemen,--I beg to express 
my grateful acknowledgment of the honour the Council of the Geological Society 
have conferred upon me by the award of the moiety of the Lyell Fund. It is 
especially gratifying to me to find that the small contributions which I have hitherto 
been able to make to the Society have been thought worthy of recognition. In 
making the award the Council seem also to have taken into account the work involved 
in teaching others, and thus preparing myself for that accurate observation which ‘is 
the first essential in Paleontological research. 
It will stimulate me to further exertions ; for there is still much to be done in the 
correlation of our Jurassic rocks as well as in other branches suggested to me by the 
rich collection in the Woodwardian Museum. 
I hope, from time to time, to offer to the Society further contributions, and I shall 
be proud and pleased to co-operate with other workers in the same field, and to assist 
them in availing themselves of the magnificent collection in the Museum with which 
I am officially connected. 
The President then read his Anniversary Address, in which, after 
giving obituary notices of Mr. Champernowne, the Rev. W. 8. Symonds, 
Sir Julius von Haast, Mr. Robert Bell, and other deceased Fellows, 
together with notices of the Foreign Members and Correspondents 
of the Society who died during 1887—Situder, de Koninck, Desnoyers, 
