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geology in this country. Having had from time to time opportunities of visiting you 
on the ground, I can bear witness both to the bodily vigour and endurance and to 
the geological enthusiasm and insight with which you climbed crags and peaks on 
which no geologist had set foot before you. The maps and memoirs which you have. 
produced of these portions of the Inner Hebrides will always remain as a monument 
of your prowess as a field geologist and petrographer. 
Tn handing you this Medal, which bears the honoured name of Murchison, let me 
Wish you, on the part of the Council and of the Society at large, health, leisure, and 
opportunity, that you may enjoy a long, useful, and distinguished career. 
Mr. Harker replied as follows :— 
Mr. President,—-I wish, in response to what you have said, to express my very 
sincere acknowledgements to the Council for the distinction which they have 
conferred upon me. ‘The pleasure with which I first received news of this honour 
has since been enhanced by the knowledge that my gratification is shared by friends 
and fellow-workers, and it is now crowned by the graceful words with which you 
have accompanied the presentation. 
In my work in Skye, to which you have made kind reference, it has been my 
privilege to tread ground rendered classic by the labours of some of the masters of 
our science; and I hold it peculiarly appropriate, as it is eminently pleasing to 
myself, that this mark of the generous appreciation of the Council should be conveyed 
by one of those my predecessors—by one, moreover, who first directed my steps in 
a field which he had already made his own. That the work has been a labour of 
love I need not say to any geologist who has felt the fascination of the West 
Highlands—least of all, Sir, to yourself. Where the work is its own reward, so 
flattering a recognition as this might perhaps be deemed an unearned addition. 
I take leave, however, to regard it as in some part an encouragement for the future, 
and with it I must accept the responsibility of justifying to the best of my powers 
the choice of the Council. 
To me, finally, this Medal will be in a special sense a memento of the ten years 
which I spent so pleasantly on the Geological Survey of Scotland: not only because 
the Medal itself was founded by a former chief of the Survey, and comes to me from 
the hand of one of his successors, but also because this award adds my name to a list 
which includes those of yourself, who, as Director-General, despatched me to the 
island which you knew so well; of Dr. Horne, head of the Scottish branch, my 
constant friend and counsellor ; of Dr. Peach, my immediate superior on the Survey ; 
and (last year) of Mr. Clough, the colleague who initiated me into the craft of 
aes surveying, setting a standard to which I fear his pupil has not often 
attained. 
In handing the Lyell Medal, awarded to Dr. Joseph Frederick 
Whiteaves, F.R.S.Can., to Lord Strathcona, for transmission to the 
recipient, the President addressed him as follows :— 
Lord Strathcona,—The Lyell Medal of the Geological Society is this year awarded 
to Dr. Joseph Frederick Whiteaves as a mark of the Council’s appreciation of his 
prolonged and valuable contributions to the Geology and Paleontology of Canada. 
As a young man, before he settled in the New World, he had already shown his. 
scientific bent by several published papers on the land and fresh-water mollusca and 
on the fossils of some of the Oolitic formations of Oxfordshire. Half a century ago 
he transferred his home and his geological energy to Canada, and from that time 
until now his scientific activity has known no pause. In 1876 he was appointed to 
succeed the illustrious Billings as Paleeontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada. 
In that official capacity he found increased opportunity of studying the fossils that 
were brought to the Survey Museum from the eastern provinces, from Manitoba, and 
from the far shores of the Pacific Ocean. Thus every fossiliferous formation in the 
wide Dominion has come under his review, and he has described many new forms in 
various grades of the animal kingdom. Following the path so admirably opened up 
by his predecessor, Dr. Whiteaves has amply sustained the scientific reputation of 
the Canadian Geological Survey, and has made solid contributions of great value to 
Paleontology. 
In requesting you, Lord Strathcona, as High Commissioner for Canada, to be so 
good as to transmit this Medal and its accompanying cheque to our esteemed 
