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5. Wollaston Medal.—The Wollaston Gold Medal has been 
_ awarded by the Geological Society to Dr. Mantell of Brighton, for 
his many important discoveries in Fossil Comparative Anatomy, 
_ particularly of the genera Iguanodon and Hyleosaurus.—Ib. 
The crounds of this justly merited award were eloquently display- 
_ ed, in an address of Charles Lyell, Esq., the new president of the 
Geological Society, and we have great pleasure in adding these re- 
marks, as they give a spirited outline of one of the most extraordi- 
_ nary and successful geological developements which has ever been 
| made.—Am. Ed. 
“‘T have now to discharge the agreeable duty of proposing the 
health of a distinguished member of this Society, to whom the Coun- 
cil have this day awarded the Wollaston medal. Gentlemen, I have 
to propose the health of Dr. Mantell. (Loud cheers.) It was a 
great disappointment to me when I received a letter from my friend, 
requesting me to attend at your meeting this morning, and to receive 
the medal, for him. He stated that he should be unable to receive 
it in person, being prevented from coming here, and from meeting 
us at this dinner, partly by indisposition, but still more for reasons 
which we can none of us regret, a press of professional business at 
Brighton. I know that there are many gentlemen now present, who 
had not the advantage of hearing in the address delivered this morn- 
ing by Mr. Greenough, the announcement of the specific grounds of 
the award made by your council, and I shall therefore state that the 
medal was conferred on Dr. Mantell for his discoveries in fossil 
Comparative Anatomy, particularly of the genera Iguanodon and 
Hyleosaurus. ‘There are few of you I presume wholly unacquaint- 
ed with the results of some of Dr. Mantell’s labors in this depart- 
ment of science—few who have not either read of them in his works, 
or seen them in his splendid museum. ‘That collection, now at 
_ Brighton, which has been visited, I believe I may say without ex- 
aggeration, by thousands of persons, is of itself a monument of origi- 
nal research and talent, well deserving, even if he had never written 
on the subject, as high a mark of distinction as the Society has con- 
ferred upon Dr. Mantell this day. It is an assemblage of treasures 
which the mere industry of a collector could never have brought to- 
gether, and which wealth alone, even had Dr. Mantell possessed it, 
could never have purchased. It required his zeal, inspired by gen- 
jus, and directed by science, to bring to light, and as it were cali into 
