186 Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 



You have also dealt with the Foraminifera of the Gault, writing a set of ten 

 papers specially on the Gault of Folkestone (1891-98). The microscopic fauna 

 of the Phosphatic Chalk, of the marl and silts of Barry Docks, and of Barbados 

 deposits have been described by you in our Journal, and you have also given us an 

 elaborate paper on the Bargate Beds and their Microscopic Contents (1894). Rhaetic 

 Foraminifera you have described in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 Pleistocene Ostracoda and Jurassic Microzoa in the Proceedings of the Geologists' 

 Association, nor have you neglected recent Foraminifera. 



That you should have so well used the opportunities which you have had while 

 serving under Professor Judd is a source of satisfaction to us, and we hope that this 

 award may be an encouragement to you in further researches. 



Mr. Chapman, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — 



I desire to express my sincere thanks to the Council of this Society for selecting me 

 as one of the recipients of the Lyell Award, and to you, Sir, for the very encouraging 

 words with which you have honoured me. However little my work in the past may 

 have merited this distinction, I trust that, with further opportunities, my later 

 endeavours in Micropalseontology and other branches of microscopical work will in 

 some degree justify this selection. I cannot let this occasion pass, without saying 

 how much direct help and advantage I have derived from the methods of geological 

 research carried out in Professor Judd's laboratory at the Eoyal College of Science. 

 Nor would I forget the invaluable advantages which I have derived from the friend- 

 ship of those engaged in the same line of research, and especially are my obligations 

 due to Professor T. Eupert Jones and Mr. C. Davies Sherborn. 



The President then handed the other raoiety of the balance of 

 the proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. John Ward, 

 r.G.S., addressing him as follows : — Mr. Ward, — 



One-half of the Balance of the Lyell Fund has been awarded to you, in recognition 

 of your long services to the Geology of your district. You have devoted many years 

 to the study of the Geology of North Staffordshire, making a large collection of 

 fossils, especially Vertebrata, from the Coal-measures, including many new forms, 

 and thus aiding, with material, the researches of various palseontologists, including 

 Egerton, Huxley, and Traquair. 



For nearly 40 years you have contributed valuable papers to local societies and to 

 mining institutes, among which is a detailed essay on the Geological Features of the 

 North Staffordshire Coalfield and the record of a rich marine fauna in certain horizons 

 of Coal-measures. Your detailed and accurate knowledge of the district has always 

 been freely placed at the service of other observers. 



Mr. Ward, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — 



It is difficult for me adequately to express my appreciation of the high honour 

 conferred by the Council of the Geological Society in awarding to me a moiety of the 

 balance of the Lyell Fund ; and to yourself, Sir, my best thanks are due for 

 the complimentary terms with which you have supplemented it. 



Forty years and upwards have now passed away since I was first led by the 

 inspiring influence of an old and much revered friend, the late Dr. Garner, author of 

 the " Natural History of the County of Stafford," to devote my leisure hours to the 

 investigation of the fossil fauna and flora of the North Staffordshire Coalfield. 



It has been my good fortune to labour in a field which, although local, is one that 

 affords abundant facilities for research in Carboniferous Palasontology, and to have 

 been led to the investigation of a branch of our science which had previously been 

 greatly neglected. My attention has principally been directed to one special line of 

 research — the fossil Vertebrata, of wliich class I have collected between 3,000 and 

 4,000 specimens of fossil fishes and reptilian remains. Of the former, about 40 

 genera and species are new to science, in addition to many rare and unique examples. 

 Within the past few years, the principal portion of my collection has been added to 

 the National Collections in Cromwell Koad, whilst another portion enriches the 

 geological collection in the Edinburgh Museum. 



I avail myself of the present opportunity to acknowledge my gratitude to the many 

 eminent palaeontologists to whose generous assistance and encouragement I owe so 

 much of my success. To Dr. Traquair my thanks are specially due for the valuable 



