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Professor "Watts, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — It gives me much pleasure personally to thank the Council 

 for their award of the Murchison Medal, and yourself, Sir, for the kind and 

 encouraging words in which you have made the presentation. The flattering 

 reference that you have made to my work, while showing how deeply I am 

 indebted to my Cambridge teachers Professor Hughes and Professor Bonney, 

 makes only too clear to me how far performance halts behind ideals. 



My long service as Secretary of the Society, my former membership of the 

 Geological Survey, and my share in Professor Lapworth's work in the county 

 where the founder made his classic discoveries, unite in making me proud to 

 possess the Murchison Medal. But there is still another reason why the 

 award is doubly gratifying to me at the present time. 



After dwelling in the wilderness for many years, the great institution founded 

 by De la Beche and presided over by Murchison (who allowed it to share the 

 die of his Medal) enters this year into full possession of the beautiful home 

 which has been erected for it at uncounted cost by the Governing Body of the 

 Imperial College. That this learned and representative Society should mark 

 the reincarnation of the Boyal School of Mines by sending to it such an 

 appropriate recognition, cannot but be a source of deep gratification to 

 Professor Judd, who designed the practical geological teaching there, to my 

 Staff, who have striven worthily to carry on and extend his methods, to 

 my colleagues in the arts and sciences of Mining, Metallurgy, and Oil-getting, 

 and to the authorities of the Imperial College, who have spared neither thought 

 nor resources in giving to De la Beche's conception a form worthy of it, have 

 placed research in the forefront of the functions of the College, and have 

 permitted the Geological Museum therein to bear the honoured name of 

 Murchison. 



The President, in presenting the Lyell Medal to Professor Edmund 

 Johnston Garwood, F.P.S., addressed him as follows: — 



Professor Garwood, — The Lyell Medal is awarded to you by the Council 

 as a token of its appreciation of your many and notable contributions to 

 geological science. In Glaciology your investigations in the English Lake 

 District, Spitsbergen, the Alps, and the Himalayas, are of fundamental 

 importance ; and, as an example of the care with which your work is presented 

 for publication, I need only mention your beautifully illustrated paper on the 

 Tarns of the Canton Ticino in our Quarterly Journal for 1906. In Stratigraphy 

 your long and patient study of the Lower Carboniferous rocks in the North- 

 West of England has resulted in the recognition of a zonal sequence which 

 must be taken as a standard for comparison in all future work on the corre- 

 sponding formations of the British Isles. In Palaeontology you have recently 

 drawn special attention to the importance of Calcareous Algae as rock-builders, 

 and have already made much progress in the detailed study of their structure. 



The Society has followed your researches with sympathetic interest for many 

 years, and, as a former colleague in the Secretaryship, it gives me great pleasure 

 to hand you this medal. 



Professor Garwood replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President,— I am deeply sensible of the honour which the Council of 

 this Society has conferred on me by the award of the Lyell Medal. 



The infinite variety and unfailing interest of the problems that confront the 

 geologist in any original research, in themselves, provide sufficient compensa- 

 tion for the labour expended ; but the sympathy and appreciation of fellow- 

 workers is a real and valuable stimulus, and a permanent source of gratification 

 and encouragement. 



In glancing at the list of names of former recipients, I notice that the first 

 award of this medal was made to the late Professor John Morris, my predecessor 

 in the Chair of Geology at University College, and it is a great satisfaction to 

 me that the work carried on in the Geological Department at the College 

 should have again received recognition at the hands of this Society. The work 



