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to my work you have fully appreciated the aim of my petrological studies, although 

 I fear that you have been unduly kiud to the performance. The illustrious founder 

 of the medal which I now receive laid stress, in common with his contemporaries, on 

 the necessity for the comparison of geological phenomena in many lands besides 

 our own. Travel, it was urged, was one of the first duties of a geologist, and this 

 was never lost sight of in the tTaining that I received from my own revered master, 

 Professor Judd. In my far smaller way I have always endeavoured to realize that 

 a rock-specimen is not a mineralogical curiosity, but a portion of this very vital 

 globe on which our destinies are cast. It is an especial pleasure, Mr. President, for 

 me to receive this encouragement from your hands, since the work so kindly recog- 

 nized has been mainly done in Ireland. When, eighteen years ago, I entered that 

 country as a stranger, you freely placed before me the results of your own enquiries, 

 and year by year you stimulated me by your energy in research. May I venture also 

 to think — you, sir, have opened the way for me to say it — that the Geological 

 Survey of Ireland, which has so kindly received me as a colleague, becomes again 

 to-day associated with the historic name of Mui'chisou ? 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Professor Percy Fry Kendall, 

 M Sc, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Kendall, — The Lyell Medal has been awarded to you by the Council as 

 a mark of honorary distinction and as an expression on the part of the Council that 

 you have deserved well of the science, especially by your researches into the Glacial 

 Geology of England. 



The success which has attended your performance of the arduous duties connected 

 with the Professorship of Geology in a young University has only been achieved by 

 strenuous labour ; that you have been aljle at the same time to accomplish so much 

 in the field of research is a striking testimony to your indomitable energy. 



Your delightful account of the Geology of Yorkshire, with its wealth of detail 

 and breadth of view, is a model of its kind, and your report to the Royal Commission 

 on the Concealed Coalfields of North-Eastern England is important, both from a 

 theoretical and from a practical point of view; but to the Fellows of this Society 

 you are probably better known by your long -continued and successful researches 

 into Glacial phenomena, and especially by your brilliant account of the Glacial lakes 

 of Cleveland. 



I sincerely trust that the future may have in store a larger share of time and 

 opportunity for the exercise of your original powers. 



Professor Kendall replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President, — I thank the Council most heartily for the honour which it has 

 done me in the award of this valued distinction, and you, sir, for the generous 

 terms in which you have conveyed it. 



My lot as a geologist has been cast in very pleasant places. I have been trebly 

 fortunate in my teachers, for, while my studies in early manhood were directed by 

 such distinguished exponents of our science as my friend" and master, Professor Judd, 

 and his lieutenant, Professor Grenville Cole, I owe not a little to the fact— until 

 this moment unknown to you— that at a still earlier period in my career I had the 

 advantage of attending a course of lectures in the City of I,ondon delivered by you. 



This inspiration fanned to a glow the fire of enthusiasm for Geology that is among 

 my earliest recollections, and will, I doubt not, last to the end of my life. 



1 have found in Yorkshire a wide and varied field, replete with problems of the 

 highest scientific interest and economic importance, which press so insistently for 

 solution that the temptation has been great to pass on from one half-solution to 

 another. It is most gratifying to find that my small measure of achievement has 

 commended itself to the Council of the Geological Society. 



I must not forget an acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to the many 

 enthusiastic brother-geologists in the county of my adoption, who have helped and 

 encouraged me in the field, and by frank aiid friendly criticism have saved nie from 

 not a few downright blunders. 



The President then presented the Bigsby Medal to Dr. Jolm Smith 

 Flett, M.A., addressing him as follows : — 



