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Dr. Flett, — In a series of masterly memoirs published during the past thirteen 

 years, you have greatly extended oui' knowledge of the geology and petrography of 

 Great Britain, particularly of Scotland and Cornwall. 



The responsible post of Petrographer to the Geological Survey has brought you 

 many opportunities, of which you have made such excellent use that you have come 

 to be generally recognized as a worthy successor to Dr. Teall, and than this I know 

 of no higher praise. 



You have not confined your studies to these Islands, but have given us descriptions 

 of the rocks of remote parts of the world. At the call of duty and in the pursuit of 

 Science you visited, iu company with Dr. Tempest Anderson, St. Vincent and 

 Martinique, and gathered your facts amidst the explosions of la Montague Pelee. 

 From my own experience of other active, if less ferocious volcanoes, I know some- 

 thing of the demands which this makes on the coolness and courage of the observer. 

 It is, therefore, with the sympathy of a comrade in arms that I hand you this Medal 

 in the name of the Council. 



Dr. "Flett replied ia the following words : — 



Mr. President, — The honour which the Society has done me by awarding to me 

 the Bigsby Medal is one of which I am deeply sensible. I can assure you, sir, that 

 it will be my endeavour to see that the stimulus that it gives to scientific work, the 

 injunction " not to rust unburnished, but to shine in use ", will not pass unregarded. 

 In the study of British rocks, principally the igneous and metaraorphic, I have had 

 exceptional advantages ; for I have received the kindest assistance from my colleagues 

 on the Geological Survey, and especially from Dr. Teall, who also by his example 

 has placed before me the highest ideals of thoroughness and accuracy in investiga- 

 tion. The labour spent in research is in the best sense its own reward, but the 

 pleasure which I have derived from it has been greatly increased by the approbation 

 which you have expressed this afternoon in handing me this Medal. 



In presenting the Prestwich Medal to Lady Evans, the President 

 addressed her as follows : — 



Lady Evans, — The Council has awarded to you the Prestwich Medal in memoriam 

 of Sir John Evans. 



It is now fifty years since Sir John Evans, iu company with his lifelong friend 

 Sir Joseph Prestwich, visited the scene of Boucher de Perthes's famous discoveries at 

 Abbeville. The results of that visit in its effect upon the whole range of human 

 thought would be difficult to estimate : one of them is apparent in the increasing 

 growth of that new branch of Science — the Anthropology of the Pleistocene Epoch — - 

 which Sir John Evans did so much to create. 



This award commemorates in some sense the joint labours of the two friends ; 

 that it was not made earher is due to Sir John Evans's long-continued and self- 

 denying services on the Council. 



We esteem ourselves fortunate that you. Lady Evans, who shared his interests, and 

 are yourself an antiquary, are able to be present on this occasion, and in handing 

 you "this Medal I desire to express, on the part of the Society, our deep appreciation 

 of the unceasing devotion and affectionate solicitude with which its interests were 

 watched over by our lost leader, whose memory we shall long preserve. 



On behalf of Lady Evans, Mr. Lewis Evans replied in the following 

 words : — 



• Mr. President,— Speaking on behalf of Lady Evans and my late father's family, 

 I have to express our great "appreciation of the honour which the ^Society has paid to 

 his memory in awarding to her the Prestwich Medal ; we also recognize the special 

 fitness of the award because of the long, unbroken, and most intimate friendship 

 between Sir Joseph Prestwich and my father ; and, on account of his knowledge of 

 medallic art, my father was chiefly responsible for the design of this medal. 



To you, sir, *I wish to tender our special thanks for yoiu- kind and s}Tnpathetic 

 •words "on the occasion of this presentation, terminating in so graceful a manner the 

 fifty-year-long connection between my father and your illustrious Society. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 



