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testify, your work has been characterized by remarkable carefulness and precision. 
It is to me a great gratification to hand this award to a former Survey colleague, and 
to wish you continued activity and success in your career. 
- ‘The President then presented the other moiety of the Balance of the 
Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. Thomas Sheppard, 
F.G.S., addressing him as follows :— 
Mr. Sheppard,—The other moiety of the Balance of the Lyell Geological Fund 
has been assigned by the Council to you in acknowledgment of the useful additions 
made by you to our knowledge of the Pleistocene Geology of East Yorkshire ; of the 
value of your bibliographical work and your labours in the Hull Museum; and of 
the excellence of your volume on ‘‘ Geological Rambles in East Yorkshire,’’ which 
contains much information presented by you in a popular and attractive form. 
The President then proceeded to ‘read his Anniversary Address, 
giving first of all obituary notices of several Fellows deceased since 
the last annual meeting, including Professor Eugéne Renevier (elected 
Foreign Member in 1888), Professor 8. L. Penfield (elected Foreign 
Correspondent in 1896), G. C. Churchill (elected a Fellow in 1864), 
the Rev. J. F. Blake (el. 1868), C. E. De Rance (el. 1869), R. P. 
Greg (el. 1853), J. G. Goodchild (el. 1884), Cav. W. P. Jervis 
(el. 1860), W. Cunnington (el. 1854), G. F. Harris (el. 1885), and 
P. Emary (el. 1897). 
He then sketched out the arrangements contemplated for the 
celebration of the Society’s Centenary. Enquiry had shown that the 
last week in the month of September appeared to be, on the whole, 
the time which would be most generally convenient to Fellows and 
guests in this country and to visitors from abroad. It was therefore 
intended that the celebration should take place at that time. Every 
Fellow of the Society would, of course, receive due notice, as well as 
a detailed statement of the arrangements when these had been finally 
settled. Invitations to attend the meetings would be immediately 
sent out to all the Foreign Members and Foreign Correspondents. 
Geological Societies, Geological Surveys, and learned institutions 
which had a geological side, would be asked to send delegates. 
Personal invitations would also be addressed to geologists of note in 
the Old and the New World who might not be already enrolled in the 
foreign lists of the Society. It was hoped that to these various 
invitations there would be a friendly response, either by personal 
representation or in writing, They might not impossibly be privileged 
to see a larger company of geologists assembled together in this 
country next September than had ever been gathered together here 
before. 
It was thought that the official programme might extend over three 
days in London. The arrangements for each of these three days were 
under consideration ; but he might mention now that he proposed to 
give his postponed address as the piéce de résistance of one of the 
forenoon or afternoon meetings. In that address he would offer 
a sketch of the state of geological science outside of Britain at the 
time when the Geological Society of London was founded, and indicate 
the external influences that affected its start. By this choice of 
a subject he hoped to interest the foreign guests, while at the same 
time inviting the Fellows of the Society into a domain of the history 
of science which was perhaps less familiar than it deserved to be. 
