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of which have appeared in our ‘ Quarterly Journal,’ and must be well 
known and highly appreciated by most of us here present, would alone 
suffice to justify the Council in their award. But when we take into 
consideration your long-continued palzontological work in connexion 
with the Museum of the Geological Survey, the results of which have 
silently exerted so great an influence upon the progress of geology in 
this country, your constant help to others in their investigations, and 
your labours as a teacher in connexion with the School of Mines, which 
must have brought forth much good fruit, I think every one will ac- 
knowledge that. you are fully entitled to all the honours which the 
Geological Society can confer upon you. I must refer especially to 
the valuable Catalogue of British Fossils upon which you have so long 
been engaged, to assist you in the completion of which the Council 
have joined to the award of the Murchison Medal the whole proceeds 
of the Fund for the present year. 
Mr. Etheridge, in reply, said: Mr. President,—This is the second 
time the Council of the Geological Society has conferred upon me the 
honour of being one of its recipients. In 1871 I was presented with 
the balance of the Wollaston Fund; and to-day I receive, at your 
hands, evidence of the marked distinction and approbation of the 
Society in being selected to receive both the Murchison Medal and 
Fund. I am indeed gratified at being its present recipient. Sir 
Roderick Murchison was for fifteen years my esteemed chief and valued 
friend. I therefore attach especial value to this mark of your appro- 
bation of any labour that I have done in the cause of that science for 
which the Medal was founded. To me no labour in the field of natural 
science is too great to be devoted to carrying out those duties I have 
to perform; and the reward bestowed upon me to-day I hope still to 
merit and repay, through work yet to be done for our Society, and by 
aiding others to spread abroad the truths of Nature as taught through 
geological and paleontological research. 
The President then presented the Lyell Medal to Mr. John Bares 
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.8., and addressed him as follows :— 
1D yp Evans, The Council has awarded to you the Lyell Medal and 
the sum of twenty euineas from the proceeds of the fund, in recognition 
of your distinguished services to geological science, especially in the 
department of Post-Tertiary geology. I can well remember the time 
when there appeared to be an almost impassable gulf between anti- 
quaries and geologists; but you and your fellow-workers have so 
completely bridged over that gulf, that we now can scarcely say where 
archeology ends and geology begins, nor whether to rank and value 
you most as an antiquary or a geologist. Your long-continued labours 
and valuable writings on flint implements have equally advanced both 
the sciences to which I have alluded, and thrown great light on that 
most interesting problem—the Antiquity of Man. As another claim 
on our highest regard, I would refer to the great services you have 
rendered to this Society in every possible way that could advance its 
interests and that of our science. We feel assured that the founder of 
this Medal would have heartily approved of the award, since your 
researches have been so intimately connected with those subjects which 
in his later years attracted so much of his attention. 
