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You have alluded, Sir, in verj- favourable terms to my vrork, and I specially desire 

 to thank you for your most kind reference to Mrs. Woodward's assistance in it, 

 dm-ing all the years which are past, when we have worked side by side ; but it would 

 be incredible if, having had the grand opportunities afforded to me during forty-three 

 years in the British Museum, I had not winnowed out some store of good grain as 

 a contribution tn the stock of pahieontological knowledge in so long a life. 



Whether as Editor of the Geological Magazine or in the Geological Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum, my greatest aim and object in life has always been to 

 be of assistance to others, and for this, I am glad to say, I have won the friendship 

 and good-will of a very large circle of my fellow-workers, who have by their kindness 

 rewarded me a hundredfold, as you. Sir, in the name of the Council have done 

 to-day by the bestowal of this Medal, for which my grateful thanks are due. 



The President then presented the Murcbison Medal to Mr. Charles 

 Thomas Cloiigh, M.A., of H.M. Geological Survey, addressing him 

 in the following words : — 



Mr. Clough, — The Council have awarded the Murcbison Medal to you, iu 

 recognition of your invaluable contributions to Geological Science by means of the 

 maps and memoirs executed by you for H.M. Geological Survey. 



Your detailed observations on the igneous and metamorphic rocks of Northern 

 Britain have furnished geologists with most important material for the elucidation of 

 many intricate problems. Your work is largely recorded in the various Memoirs 

 of the Geological Survey. I may especially refer to those Memoirs which treat of 

 the geology of the Cheviot Hills and of the Cowal District of Argyllshire, although 

 your contributions to our science are also included in several other volumes of which, 

 you are one of the authors. 



Your Avork is also recorded on the maps of those areas which you have surveyed. 

 To produce those maps required, in addition to the ordinary accomplishments of 

 a geological surveyor, petrographical and other knowledge of a very special kind, 

 and they form a fitting monument to your skill. Their remarkable execution was 

 recognized by the selection of certain of those of Koss-shu'e for exhibition at the 

 St. Louis Exhibition, as examples of the maps on the 6 inch scale which are 

 produced by the Geological Surveyors of this country. 



Once again the Murcbison Medal is awarded to a member of that Survey of which 

 the founder was for so long chief. It is a source of gratification to me that, in the 

 two years of my office as President, medals have been awarded to two old members of 

 my own College, pupils of my College tutor, Dr. Bonuey. 



Mr. Clough replied as follows : — 



Mr. President, — I thank the Council of the Geological Society very much for the 

 honour that they have conferred upon me, and you. Sir, for the very kind words in 

 which you have spoken of my work. I am conscious that this presentation is 

 a matter not purely to myself — that it is another recognition by this Society of the 

 value of the detailed co-operative work carried on by the Geological Survey— and it 

 is to me a great additional pleasure to be thus tacitly associated in your minds with 

 colleagues and friends with whom I have spent so many happy years. I have now 

 been on the staff of the Geological Survey for more than thirty years, and I have 

 seen that we sometimes get on the wrong track — that we have our ' downs ' as well 

 as our ' ups ' — but we feel that, through all vicissitudes, a foundation of honest work 

 is always appreciated by our brethren of the hammer. 



It is a pleasure also on this occasion to acknowledge my personal indebtedness to 

 my old friends and teachers of Cambridge days, and particularly to Professor Bonney 

 and Professor Hughes. I feel indeed that I owe to others more than I can tell. 1 1 



In handing the Lyell Medal, awarded to Professor Frank Dawson 

 Adams, Ph.D., to Sir Archibald Geikie, Sc.D., Sec.R.S., for trans- 

 mission to the recipient, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Sir Archibald Geikie, — The Lyell Medal is awarded to Profissor Frank D. Adams 

 as a mark of honorary distinctiou, and as an expression on the part of the Council 

 that he has deserved well of the science, particularly by his contributions to our 

 knowledge of the Geologv of Canada. 



