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afternoon, and to hear the graceful terms in which you have spoken of his work. 

 Mr. Blake has been called away to India, to discharge important duties there, and 

 I cannot but feel that his exile from home will be rendered more tolerable by this 

 recognition of his past work and by the assurance, which this Award will surely 

 convey to him, that his numerous friends in this country are not unmindful of him. 

 He has asked me to " represent to this Meeting what solid satisfaction the Award 

 gives him," and he requests me to add that " any geological work I have done, 

 or may be doing, has never been done for the sake of honour, but, as Prof. Lodge 

 once said, ' if a man feels that he has a call for any line of research, he is bound to 

 obey it, and woe to him if he fails to do so. Necessity is laid upon him ! ' In the 

 rough and tumble of the work, it is often a matter of doubt whether the call has 

 been rightly obeyed, and whether the work is as good as it should be. As against 

 such discouragement, this Award will always remain a bulwark. It will be a 

 perpetual reminder that my co-workers sympathize mth me, and appreciate every 

 effort at its full, or more than its full, value." 



The President then presented one-half of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Percy Fry Kendall, 

 F.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — Mr. Kendall, — 



Some twelve years ago your attention was directed to the study of the fossils of 

 our EngHsh Crags, and in 1886, in conjunction with the late Robert Bell, F.G.S., 

 you gave to this Society an excellent account of the fauna of the newly -discovered 

 Pliocene beds of St. Erth in Cornwall. Since then your observations have been 

 concentrated chiefly on Glacial deposits, and in elucidating some of the difficult 

 problems connected with their origin. I would especially call attention to your 

 very full and careful account of the Glacial Geology of the Isle of Man (1894), in 

 which you have shown yourself a most enthusiastic and painstaking geologist. 

 The Council desire your acceptance of this moiety of the Lyell Fund— which may 

 serve to attest their appreciation of your scientific labours. 



Mr. Kendall replied in the following words : — Mr. President, — 



The honour which the Council of the Geological Society have conferred upon me 

 was entirely unexpected, as I have not as yet ventured to submit any of the results 

 of 'my work upon the superficial deposits of our country to the ordeal of criticism 

 in this room. 



I have had in my career the good fortune to be brought under the influence of 

 two Fellows of the Geological Society, to whose inspiration and example I owe more 

 than words of mine can express, and by whom I have been directed into fields of 

 enquiry that have yielded me subjects of study of constant and absorbing interest. 



The late Mr. Kobert G. Bell, whose unobtrusive, and for the most part un- 

 published, labours are known to but few, gave me a training in Upper Tertiary 

 Palaeontology which I have found of priceless value in the study of the more recent 

 deposits. To the late Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, moreover, I owe a deep debt of 

 gratitude for awakening in me, during a too brief intercourse, an interest in the 

 complicated and fascinating problems of Glacial Geology. 



The Award of a moiety of the Lyell Fund I gratefully accept as an assurance 

 from my brother geologists that my observations have been of some help in advancing 

 the science, though they have led me to conclusions which are not generally adopted. 

 Thus encouraged I shall return to my pleasant labours animated by a new zeal. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of the 

 Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund (awarded to Mr. Benjamin 

 Harrison, of Ightham) to Prof. T. Kupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S., for 

 transmission to the recipient, and addressed him as follows : — Prof. 

 Rupert Jones, — 



The Council of the Geological Society desire to express to Mr. Benjamin Harrison 

 their appreciation of his earnest labours carried on for more than fifteen years in the 

 neighbourhood of Ightham, resulting in the remarkable discoveries of PalseoUthic 

 Flint Implements of special character lying on the surface of the plateau at all' 

 levels up to nearly 600 feet above the sea. Some idea of their abundance may be 

 formed from the fact that Mr. Harrison has collected more than 400, within a radius 

 of five miles of Ightham. 



