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Macazine—all within the last six years—is a proof of her industry, while the papers. 
themselves indicate an excellent knowledge of Petrology and a good eye for country. 
The Council, in making this Award, wish it to be regarded as an acknowledgment of 
past work, and at the same time as an encouragement for the future. 
Professor Bonney, in reply, said :—Mr. President,— 
I have been requested by Miss Raisin to offer her thanks to the Council and 
Society in the following terms :— 
‘Tt is difficult for me to express the gratification which I feel at the honour that 
has been conferred upon me by the Council of the Geological Society. It gives me 
also peculiar pleasure to receive an award associated with the name of Sir Charles 
Lyell, whose ‘Principles of Geology’ was one of the earliest books to arouse my 
enthusiasm in that subject, and who by the terms of his Bequest gave evidence of 
an interest in the intellectual work of women, and even anticipated that they might 
in the future take part in scientific investigations. In addition to the personal 
honour, I welcome this recognition as an encouragement, not to myself only, but 
also to other women who are working at Geology and at different branches of Natural 
Science. I can assure the Society that their generous appreciation of the little which 
I have done will not be thrown away, but that I shall use my best endeavours in the 
future to carry on work worthy of their kind encouragement, worthy also of the 
instruction and guidance received at University College, the benefit of which I 
rejoice to have this opportunity of acknowledging.”’ 
Here I might sit down, but I cannot forbear from expressing my personal 
gratification at being chosen to represent so earnest and conscientious a worker. 
It brings me a further gratification. As life is in its afternoon we become conscious, 
often painfully, that we have failed in fulfilling our earlier ideals. My own work 
has been smaller in quantity and inferior in quality to what I had hoped, but, when 
one former pupil receives an Award and another a Medal, when the Secretaries 
designated for the coming year are two other old pupils, one feels that one has not 
wholly laboured in vain. 
The Presipenr then presented the other half of the Balance of 
the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Alfred N. Leeds, 
addressing him as follows :—Mr. Leeds,— 
The Council have awarded to you the second moiety of the Balance of the Proceeds 
of the Lyell Geological Fund, in appreciation of your long-continued and successful 
endeavours to collect and reconstruct the fossil Vertebrata of the Oxford Clay of the 
neighbourhood of Peterborough. In making this Award the Council bear in mind 
the readiness you have at all times shown to place the materials in your possession at. 
the service of paleontologists desirous of availing themselves of your treasures. The 
Fund now awarded, besides being a recognition of past services, may serve to 
encourage you to work in the same direction. 
Mr. Lerps, in reply, said :—Mr. President,— 
In returning thanks to yourself and the Council for this Award, I must say how 
astonished and pleased I was at so unexpected a recognition. It is more than twenty 
years since my brother (who now resides in New Zealand) and I began to collect 
fossils from the Oxtord Clay. The late Prof. Phillips, of Oxford, was the first: 
geologist to describe some of our specimens, which are also figured in his ‘‘ Geology 
of Oxford.’? In 1874 Prof. Seeley described the remains of Murenosaurus, and 
since then he, Mr. J. W.. Hulke, Mr. R. Lydekker, and Mr. A. Smith Woodward 
have written many papers for your Society upon other specimens of Saurians and 
Fishes which we had collected. From all these friends, and especially from Dr. H. 
Woodward, we have received the very greatest encouragement in our work. 
You, Sir, have crowned our labours to-day, by your generous approval and the 
stamp of the ‘‘ Lyell Award.”’ 
The Presipenr then proceeded to read his Anniversary Address, 
in which he first gave Obituary Notices of several Fellows and 
Foreign Members deceased since the last Annual Meeting, including 
Sir Richard Owen (elected in 1837), Mr. John Murray (elected in 
1828), Col. T. W. Fletcher (elected in 1842), Mr. H. F. Blanford, 
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