22 ANNUAL MEETING ; GOLD MEDAL. 



His first duty as president was one which afforded him great 

 pleasure, and that was to hand to Mr. J. H. Collins the medal 

 awarded to him by a full meeting of the Council, after careful 

 consideration of the papers sent in. Under the will of the late 

 Mr. Henwood, a certain sum of money was left, to be devoted 

 every three years to having a medal struck, of a certain value, 

 to be presented for the paper considered by the Council to be the 

 best published in the Transactions of the Institution during the 

 previous three years. The paper of Mr, Collins, to which the 

 medal had been awarded, was the third of a series. The 

 Council were mindful of the fact that it was a continuation of 

 other papers, but the medal was awarded for that paper only 

 which had been published during the last three years. It struck 

 him as a happy coincidence that the paper of Mr. Collins was a 

 continuation or carrying on of the work to which Mr. Henwood 

 devoted a considerable portion of his life, and which dealt with 

 the mineral veins of Cornwall. That was considered classic, and 

 contained information and references which were not now 

 obtainable from any other source. Mr. Henwood traversed 

 many countries, and a vast distance underground ; what he wrote 

 was the result of personal observation, and his writings could 

 never be superseded. His treatise was the standard work on 

 Cornish mining and veins. Mr. Collins had continued that 

 work which he had carried so far, and it was a great pleasure to 

 him (Mr. Enys), as the first act of his presidency, to hand Mr. 

 Collins the Henwood Gold Medal. He hoped Mr. Collins might 

 be able — now he was again resident in England — to come more 

 often amongst them. They would always have pleasure in 

 welcoming him, and would, he had no doubt, be benefitted by 

 his assistance and researches. [The Medal was then presented]. 



Mr. E. A. Wiinsch said he considered it a great privilege to 

 be allowed to speak in endorsement of what the president had 

 said. He thought he might congratulate the Institution on the 

 choice of their new President. It was a particularly happy 

 circumstance in connection with that presentation that they had 

 recently assisted at a meeting of the Eoyal Geological Society, 

 where Mr. Eox delivered an address which must have aroused 

 geologists, and would he hoped rouse the members of that 

 Institution generally to greater exertion. Mr. Henwood devoted 



