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Your researches on the fossil mammals of Hgypt, many of them discovered by 
yourself, are still more noteworthy ; and your Descriptive Catalogue of the 
Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayim (Egypt), published by the Trustees of the 
British Museum in 1906, began a new era in the history of mammalian life. 
Your demonstration of the stages in the evolution of the Proboscidea and of 
the relationship between the Proboscidea and the Sirenia, your description and 
interpretation of the strange Hocene genus Arsinoithertwm, and your recognition 
of the early differentiation of the Hyracoids in Africa are especially fundamental 
contributions to biological and geological science. I would further add that all 
your writings are characterized by remarkable thoroughness and insight into 
the meaning of the facts described. 
As your colleague in the British Museum during the whole period of your 
service, it gives me great pleasure to hand to you this medal, which the Council 
of the Geological Society could not have more worthily bestowed. 
Dr. Andrews replied in the following words :— 
Mr. President, —I wish to express my most sincere thanks to the Council of 
the Geological Society for the honour that it has done me in awarding to me the 
Lyell Medal, and to you, sir, for the too flattering terms in which you have 
made the presentation. Iam particularly pleased to have received this medal 
from the hands of one with whom I haye been associated for so many years. 
You will remember that, exactly twenty years ago, you yourself received this 
award from Dr. Henry Woodward, and that at the same time I received a moiety 
of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund. 
If I have been able to accomplish something in Vertebrate Paleontology, it 
is mainly due to the fortunate environment in which I have found myself. 
An assistant in the British Museum possesses quite exceptional advantages, 
having free access to the great libraries and to the ever-increasing collections, 
and lastly, but by no means least, having many opportunities of making the 
personal acquaintance of workers interested in his subject. Having enjoyed 
these privileges, I feel that I have somewhat fallen short of what I ought to 
haye accomplished; but, although it is just now uncertain what the future 
may have in store for us, I hope that I may still have opportunities of doing 
further work such as will justify this award. 
The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 
Wollaston Donation Fund, awarded to Mr. William Bourke Wright, 
-B.A., to Mr. George William Lamplugh, F.R.S., for transmission 
to the recipient, addressing him as follows :— 
Mr. LAMPLUGH,—The Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation 
Fund is awarded to Mr. William Bourke Wright, in recognition of his con- 
tributions to Quaternary Geology. After completing his geological studies under 
Professor J. Joly at Dublin University, Mr. Wright joined the Ivish branch of 
the Geological Survey, and came under the influence of yourself when you 
were engaged in working out the glacial problems of the Dublin district. He 
took part in the revision of the memoirs and drift-maps of the Dublin, Belfast, 
and Cork districts, and shared with Mr. H. B. Maufe the discovery of 
a continuous raised-beach feature older than the Glacial Period. He also 
observed this pre-Glacial rock-shelf or beach in the West of Scotland, showing 
that a general subsidence allowed the sea to enter the valleys along the coasts 
of the British Isles, almost at the present sea-level, before they were occupied 
by the ice. After some experience both in Scotland and in England, Mr. Wright 
returned to Ireland, where, as senior Geologist of the Irish Survey, he has. 
since been successfully engaged on the glacial geology of the Kenmare and 
Killarney district. Much of his leisure has been devoted to the preparation of 
an important work on The Quaternary Ice Age, in which he has made good 
use of his observations not only in the British Isles but also in Scandinavia. 
Impressed by the value of Mr. Wright’s researches, the Council will be glad if 
you will transmit this award to him, with its best wishes for the progress of 
the work which he has so well begun. 
