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you have presented it. My only regret in connection with this Medal is that, owing 

 to your many years of devoted service to the Society as its Secretary, your name does 

 not appear on the roll of my predecessors. 



The list of my contributions to geological literature includes a somewhat wide range 

 of subjects, to which you have referred very kindly, although they may appear sadly 

 disconnected. Of course, every geologist who is not master of his own time must 

 devote most of his energies to work not of his own selecting. He must do what he 

 should, and not what he would. I owe it to the sympathetic consideration with which 

 the senior officials of the British Museum treat their assistants, that much of my 

 work when I was on its staff had as close a bearing as it had upon the problems in 

 which I have been most deeply interested. My attention was first directed to geology 

 in order to understand the geography of the districts through which I rambled, and 

 the often apparently erratic course of the rivers. The bent "that led me into geology, 

 in order to understand local topography, subsequently roused my especial interest in 

 the existing plan of the Earth. That interest has caused me to spend so much of 

 my vacations collecting evidence in the ' back-blocks ' of the Earth, that I have not 

 yet had sufficient opportunity to work out the results. This award will justify an 

 attempt to secure more time for this work. One of the favourite proverbs of one of 

 my old Zanzibar porters was ' "Whither good things go, thence good things should 

 return.' The words of Bigsby's -n-ill show that this maxim inspired his bequest ; and 

 I am bound to make as good a retm-n to our science as I can tor this valued Medal, 

 and for the good wishes and cheering contidence which it betokens. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation-Fund to Mr. Henry Howe Arnold-Bemrose, M.A., the 

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Arnold-Bemrose,— The Council have awarded the Balance of the Proceeds of 

 the Wollaston Donation-Fund to you, as an acknowledgment of the value of your 

 investigations among the igneous and other rocks and the cave-deposits of Derbyshire. 



In the intervals of a busy life you have done much to add to our knowledge of the 

 geology of that county, and have also generously placed your services at the disposal 

 of geologists visiting the district. We look forward with confidence to further work 

 from your pen, and hope that you will receive this award as an encouragement to you 

 in carrying on your labours. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Mnrchison Geological Fund to Mr. Herbert Lister Bowman, M.A., 

 addressing him in the following words : — 



Mr. Bowman, — There appeared at one time to be some danger that Mineralogy 

 might be divorced from Geology. This Society has never ceased to recognize the 

 relationship of the two sciences, and the Council acknowledge it on this occasion by 

 awarding the Balance of the Proceeds of the Murchison Geological Fund to you, who 

 are pursuing the study of the former science. The Council moreover hope that this 

 award may encourage you to prosecute further those researches in which you are 

 already so far advanced, — researches in a science the study of which has received so 

 great an impetus in your University by the labours of the distinguished occupant of 

 the Wa}Tiflete Chair of Mineralogy. 



The President then presented a moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Edward Alexander 

 Newell Arber, M.A., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Arber, — The Council have awarded a moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds 

 of the Lyell Geological Fund to you, in recognition of youi- valuable contributions to 

 our knowledge of Palajobotany. 



In addition to the papers which you have contributed to this Society, I would 

 specially refer to the paper on " The Fossil Flora of the Culm-Measures of North- 

 West Devon," printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 



I hope that you will regard this award as an encouragement to fm-ther work. Let 

 me assure you of the pleasure which it gives me to hand it to a former pupil and 

 present colleague. 



