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Dr. Evans in reply, said: Mr. President,—It is with much 
gratification that I receive this award at your hands, for I regard it 
not only as a kindly mark of appreciation on the part of yourself and 
the Council, but also as a memorial of my old and valued friend and 
master Sir Charles Lyell. This Medal, has, indeed, a peculiar interest 
to me in connexion with him; for it was while I was one of your 
Secretaries that he did me the honour of consulting me as to the 
foundation of this fund; and, subsequently, it was as your President 
that I had the satisfaction of handing the first Lyell Medal and the 
first proceeds of the Fund to no less distinguished a geologist and 
paleontologist than Prof. Morris. I am highly flattered to find 
myself associated with him and other eminent geologists in the list of 
the recipients of this Medal, and only wish that I was equally 
deserving of the honour. What little I may have done, either 
directly or indirectly, to promote the advance of geological knowledge, 
has been mainly the result of my now somewhat long connexion with 
this Society, and the many valuable and, I hope, enduring friendships 
with its Fellows that I have thus been enabled to make. This 
connexion is one upon which I look back with unalloyed satisfaction, 
and of which this Medal will always preserve the record. 
The President next presented the balance of the proceeds of the 
Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. Thomas Davies, F.G.S., of the 
British Museum, and addressed him as follows :— 
Mr. Davies,—The Council of this Society has awarded to you 
the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, as a testimony of 
the value of your researches in mineralogy and lithology, and to assist 
you in the further examination of the microscopic structure of rocks. 
I need hardly say how much this subject claims my own sympathy, 
and we feel assured that it would also have secured that of the founder 
of the fund. I am astonished at the rapid growth of this branch of 
inquiry since, some thirty years ago, I with my own hands prepared 
the first thin sections of rocks for geological purposes. Very much, 
however, remains to be learned; and we hope that the award of the 
Council will enable you to still further extend your inquiries. 
Valuable as have been the results which you have made public, we all 
feel that in many cases you have still further advanced our science by 
the. generous assistance which you have afforded to others.. As a 
slight token of our regard, we beg you will accept the usual balance 
of the Wollaston Fund, which I now present to you. 
Mr. Davies replied: Mr. President,—I am deeply sensible of the 
honour conferred upon me by the Council in making me this award, 
and I beg to tender them my sincere thanks. ‘That branch of the 
science of mineralogy which embraces the habits, associations, and 
modes of occurrence of mineral species has long been of special interest 
tome. The gratification derived from having been enabled to apply 
the knowledge I have gained in assisting others to elucidate the struc- 
ture and probable origin of some of the older rocks, is now greatly 
enhanced by this recognition.” I regard it also as an incentive to the 
continuance of this work, which now occupies so many scientific minds 
both at home and abroad. a i 
Addressing Professor Seeley, the President said:—It is with much 
