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Uudoiibtedl)' your long continuous service on the Council (from 1885 to 1899) has 

 ixlone hindered us from thus acknowledging the value of your work until now. 



The award of the Lyell Medal may bring an additional pleasure to you in that it 

 has been given to jS^icholson, with whom you have so often worked, and to Hughes, 

 whom you have so greatly assisted in the teaching of geology at Cambridge. 



"We are proud to add your name to the list of Lyell Medallists. 



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



In thanking the Council for the very gratifying and unexpected honour which they 

 have conferred upon me, I feel that they must have been influenced in their choice 

 by personal considerations, as I have been so long among them. The Founder of 

 the Medal stated that tlie recipient must have " deserved well of the science," which 

 in the present case could only be so in that 1 have tried to do my best ; I will 

 endeavour, however, by working iu the future, to "justify the honour." 



You have mentioned. Sir, original work and teaching as qualilicatious. As 

 regards original work, I have been singularly fortunate in the co-operation of the 

 late Professor Nicholson, and in that of Mr. Harker and Mr. Garwood. As 

 a teacher, i am glad to see two of my old pupils receiving awards on this occasion, 

 as it shows how happy I am iu the nature of my classes. Eut I feel that the 

 teacher's influence must count for something, and I know it by experience, as a pupil 

 of the Woodwardian Professor. I am glad to take the present occasion to bear 

 testimony to Professor Hughes's guidance of his pupils' work — a guidance by no 

 means exercised solely iu the lecture -room. 



As one who was brought up in Lyellism, and am still being brought up in it, I am 

 unaffectedly glad that the I^yeil Medal has been awarded to me. i do not tise the term 

 Lyellism in a narrow sense, as a cryst;illized set of tenets, which wHl ever retain the 

 form in which they were left at the Founder's death. 1 regard it rather as 

 possessing vitality, and as ever growing and spreading its seed, like a goodly tree. 



In conclusion, while thanking you, Sir, for the kind words which you have used in 

 presenting the Medal, I heg to call your attention to the fact that it "is To years since 

 you have shown me your first kindness, and that kindness has continued ever since. 

 I am especially glad to receive the Medal from your hands. 



In presenting the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation 

 Fund to Mr. George Thurland Prior, M.A., of the Natural History 

 Museum, the President addressed him as follows : — Mr. Prior, — 



In the course of the last thirteen years you have contributed a number of papers 

 to the Mineralogical Society, either alone or in coujuuctiou with other observers, in 

 which you have described minerals from various parts of the world. In the case, 

 indeed, of one of the late numbers of the Mineralogical Magazine, there would be 

 little left were the five papers wholly or partly M'ritten by you taken out. In three 

 cases you have done us tlie service of showing that certain minerals had been 

 christened more than once. You have, moreover, strayed from the path of ptu-e 

 Mineralogy into the ways of Petrology, and have always been ready to let geologists 

 have the advantage of that valuable help which your position iu the Natural History 

 Museum enables you to give them. 



We are glad to find that our great National Museum continues to keep to the front 

 in Miueralugy, and that we may look forward to the continuance of able observers 

 among its otticials. The Wollaston Fund is most fittingly awarded to this end. 



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



I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the Council for the honour which they 

 have done me m conferring this award. That it should be connected with the name 

 of Wollaston is to me an additional pleasure, since my work has been mainly of 

 a chemical and mineralogical character. 



Mineralogists are perhaps rather apt to pav too little attention to the modes 

 <)f occm-ience and mutual associations of the 'minerals that they study. To try 

 in future to make my mineralogy more geological in its character, I feel," will be the 

 best way for me to show my high appreciation of this generous recognition from the 

 •Council and of the kind words ^Yith which you, Sir, have accompanied it. 



The President then handed the balance of the proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. A. Vaughan Jennings, 



