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of the various Medals and of the proceeds of the Donation Funds in the gift of the 
Society. 
In Preaeniane the Wollaston Gold Medal to Mr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., F.G.S., 
the President addressed him as follows: —Mr. Blanford,—The Council has awarded 
you its highest distinction, the Wollaston Medal, in recognition of your services to 
geology in Abyssinia, in Persia, and on the Geological Survey of the Indian Empire. 
They are so well and so generally known that it is not necessary for me to enlarge 
upon them here. Your writings, which treat of a not inconsiderable portion of the 
Eastern Hemisphere, comprise, in addition to geology, much information respecting 
zoology and the climates of the countries in which you served. Stamped with 
thoroughness and comprehensiveness, they constitute important additions to our 
knowledge of those regions. In conferring upon you this distinction, the Council 
of the Geological Society desires to mark its sense of their great value. 
Mr. Buanrorp, in reply, said:—Mr. President,—I find it difficult to express 
adequately my sense of the honour that the Geological Society has conferred upon 
me by the award of the Wollaston Medal, an honour enhanced by the flattering 
expressions which you, Sir, as President of the Society, have added to the gift. I 
believe that my own geological labours do not entitle me to this distinction, and 
that, for this award, I am indebted fully as much to the work of my colleagues on 
the Geological Survey of India as to my own, and in receiving the Medal I appear 
as their representative, and that I owe that fortunate position at least as much to 
a series of accidents as to my own merits, partly to my having been selected for 
work of wider interest, though not of greater importance, than that executed by 
my comrades, and partly to my having resisted for a longer period than some 
others the injurious effects of a tropical climate. My own career in India is at 
an end; but the twenty-seven years that have elapsed since I first landed in that 
country have witnessed the gradual accumulation of observations sufficient not merely 
to throw much light upon the geological structure and history of India itself, but 
occasionally to reflect a few rays on obscure spots in the geology of other regions. 
That the results of our labours have been considered worthy of so honourable an 
award by the Geological Society will, I am sure, prove most gratifymg to my 
colleagues who are still engaged in working out the geology of India; whilst to 
myself the Medal is an unexpected recompense for many years of laborious ex- 
ploration. 
The Prestent then handed the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation 
Fund to Prot. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., Sec. G.S., for transmission to Prof. John Milne, 
F.G.S8., of Tokio, Japan, and addressed him as follows :—Prof. Judd, —The Council, 
in bestowing upon Mr. Milne the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, 
wishes to mark its appreciation of the importance of his investigations into the 
phenomena of earthquakes, to which he has devoted so much time and attention 
during his residence in Japan. In handing to you this cheque for transmission to 
him, I would ask you to convey to him the hopes of the Council that this award 
may assist him in continuing those inquiries in Seismology which he has proved 
himself so well able to undertake. 
Professor Jupp, in reply, said:—Mr. President, I feel sure that the pleasure 
with which my friend Prof. Milne will hear in his distant home of this award of the 
Council of this Society will be enhanced when he learns the kind and appreciative 
terms in which you have spoken of his work. When Mr. Milne left England last 
year, it was with the intention of visiting the several Italian observatories in which 
investigations on those minute earth-tremours which are now attracting so much 
attention from geologists are carried on. In Japan Prof. Milne hopes to have ample 
opportunities for applying these new modes of investigation; and I have no doubt 
that the award from the Wollaston Fund which has been made to him this day will 
be of material assistance to him in carrying on these important observations. 
In handing the Murchison Medal to Mr. Warington W. Smyth, M.A., F.R.S., 
F.G.S., for transmission to Prof. Heinrich Robert Goppert, F.M.G.S., of Breslau, 
the Prestpent said: — Mr. Warington Smyth, The Council of the Geological Society 
has awarded one of its high distinctions, the Murchison Medal and a part of the pro- 
ceeds of the Murchison Fund, to Prof. H. R. Géppert, of Breslau, one of our Foreign 
Members, in recognition of his labours in fossil botany. The very large number of 
papers, 245, recorded in the Scientific List of the Royal Society under Prof. 
Goppert’s name, testifies to the zeal and success with which he has cultivated this 
