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difSculty through having to resign his appointment on the Indian Survey, on account 

 of his inability to resist the effects of a tropical climate. 1 know as a fact that the 

 Award was a great encouragement to him, and 1 think the volumes which he has 

 since published in the " Palaeontologia Indica," containing his descriptions of that 

 marvellous series of Salt Range fossils from Lower Cambrian to Trias, and his 

 masterly summary of the Geological results, have thoroughly justified the award 

 that was made. 



In a letter which he wrote to me recently, Dr. "Waagen said : " The decision of 

 the Geological Society's Council to award to me the Lyell Medal is greatly gratifying 

 to me, and I have to express to the Society my most heartfelt thanks. These 1 beg 

 you to express to the Society, as my health is yet too untrustworthy for me to go to 

 London and do so myself. I hope yet to do some work, though my chief work has 

 been done. I hope to finish the Indian Trias ; the IS'autilidse and Gasteropoda are 

 in manuscript finished, and the Pelecypoda will soon be commenced. I hope to 

 finish the Avhole by the end of this year. 



" The Medal will give me a new impulse to go on with the work So 



I beg you to receive it on my behalf and to express my most hearty thanks to the 

 Society for it." 



1 1 only remains for me, Sir, to thank you on behalf of Dr. Waagen for having 

 added to the value of the Medal by the manner in which you have spoken of his 

 services to science. 



la presenting to Mr. H. Woods, M.A., F.G.S., a moiety of the 

 balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, the President 

 addressed him as follows : — Mr. Woods, — 



The Geological Society has already received some important communications from 

 you, and I hope that these will be followed by many others. In your paper on the 

 Igneous Rocks of the Neighbourhood of Builth you have successfully applied not 

 only your petrological knowledge, but also your palseontological experience in 

 working out the stratigraphy of an interesting and complicated region ; and your 

 paper on the Fossils of the Middle Chalk is a very valuable contribution to the study 

 of the Fauna of the British Cretaceous Rocks. Your " Catalogue of Type Fossils 

 in the Woodwardian Museum ' ' is indispensable to all working palaeontologists ; and 

 your "Elementary Palaeontology," written primarily for Cambridge students, has 

 been found so useful that it is now, I understand, adopted as a textbook, not only in 

 many places in Britain, but also in the Colonies and in America. I have much 

 pleasure in handing to you this Award on behalf of the Council of the Geological 

 Society, in testimony of your past work, and in the hope that it may be of some aid 

 to you ia your future labours. 



Mr. Woods, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — 



It is with much pleasure and gratitude that I receive this fund which the Council 

 have been good enough to award me ; and I can assure you. Sir, that I shall lose no 

 opportunity of continuing the work to which you have referred. Although the 

 greater part of my time is occupied by official duties in the lecture-room and museum, 

 yet it is encouraging to hope that, as a teacher, I may be an indirect means of 

 helping forward palteontological investigation. 



In my " Catalogue of Type Fossils in the "Woodwardian Museum," of which you 

 have so kindly spoken, I endeavoured to give not only a list of types, but also 

 a record of the persons who have enriched the collections in o\ir museum, and 

 amongst those benefactors you, Sir, occupy a prominent place. 



The President then presented the other moiety of the balance 

 of the proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. W. H. 

 Shrubsole, F.G.S., addressing him as follows : — Mr. Shrubsole, — 



For many years your name, as well as that of two of your brothers, has been well 

 known to the Fellows of this Society, and it is a pleasure to me to hand to you, on 

 behalf of the Council, this moiety of the Lyell Fund, in testimony of the valuable 

 services rendered by you to Geolngical Science. 



Although during your long residence at Sheerness you were engaged in business, 

 you lost no opportuuity of advancing the science of Geology, to which you had 



