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and fourteen to the ' Transactions of the Cotteswold Club,' and has published 

 a Handbook of the Geology and Palaeontology of the Cotteswold Hills. You will 

 convey this Medal and award to Dr. Lycett, and assure him that, although he is 

 not a Fellow of this Society, we are nevertheless not unmindful of the great service 

 he has rendered to Jurassic pala3ontology. 



Prof. JuDD, in reply, apologized in the name of Dr. Lycett for his absence on 

 this occasion, which he said was due to the weak state of his health. At Dr. Lycett's 

 request he represented him at the Meeting, and he read the following letter from 

 Dr. Lycett :— " Scarborough, Feb. 10, 1882. 



" Dear Mr. Judd, — I desire through you to express to the President and Fellows 

 of the Geological Society my deep sense of the honour they confer upon me in 

 presenting me with the Lyell Medal. I also wish to express my regret that infirmi- 

 ties connected with advance of years quite prevent my having the pleasure of being 

 present upon this occasion. Even the little which I have been enabled to effect in 

 the cultivation of palajontological science has always been to me a never-failing 

 source of pleasure and satisfaction, qualified, however, by a regret that my means 

 and opportunities have been so limited in their scope, and a conviction that all I 

 have either accomplished or attempted is altogether insignificant in comparison with 

 the immense field of research presented by nature to the student in palseontology. 

 " I remain, dear Mr. Judd, Yours truly and faithfully, John Lycett. 



" Frofessor J. W. Judd, F.R.S., F.G.S." 



In presenting the balance of the proceeds of the Wollaston Dona- 

 tion Fund to Dr. Geo. Jennings Hinde, F.G.S., the President said : 



Dr. Hinde, — The Council of this Society has awarded to you the balance of the 

 proceeds of the Wollaston Fund as a testimony of their recognition of your researches 

 in certain groups of the Invertebrata and upon Glacial phenomena in Canada, the 

 latter carried on during a residence of seven years in that country, where your entire 

 time was spent in geological research and gaining extensive knowledge of a large area 

 of eastern North America, extending from Nova Scotia on the east to Nebraska 

 on the west, and from the shores of J^ake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico. Your 

 researches on the Siliuian fossils of the Niagara and Guelph formations, the Glacial 

 phenomena of the peninsula of Western Canada, and on the Glacial and Interglacial 

 strata of Scarboro' heights, near Toronto, are described in the Canadian Journal. 

 Your discovery of Conodonts and the jaws of Annelids in the Ordovician strata 

 near Toronto showed conclusively that they were as abundant in the Silurian 

 and Devonian sti-ata of North America, as in the rocks of the same age in Eussia, 

 where they had been described by Pander. This discovery of Annelid jaws proved 

 the existence of this class, previously supposed to occur in the Palaeozoic strata only 

 from their tracks ; it also showed their close relationship to existing errant Annelids. 

 Tliis was followed by your discovering similar Annelid remains in the Silurian strata 

 of the West of England and in the Subcarboniferous roclis in Scotland. Lastly, 

 your careful, learned, and elaborate researches upon the large collection of fossil 

 sponges in the British Museum, at present in MS., would alone entitle you to the 

 consideration of the Council. I therefore in their name hand you the balance of 

 the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, to enable you to carry on further research and 

 to mark their high appreciation of your laboiu-s. 



Dr. Hinde, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — I desire to express my hearty 

 acknowledgments to the Council of the Geological Society for the honour which they 

 have bestowed upon me, and to you. Sir, for the kind terms in which you have con- 

 veyed the award to me. I accept it with great gratification, for 1 regard it not only 

 as a complimentary recognition on the part of the Council of the work which I have 

 done, but also as a proof of theii- sympathetic encouragement of my future efforts. 

 That I should ever accomplish anything which would lead to my receiving the 

 Wollaston fund did not enter into my wildest dreams when 1 made my early attempts, 

 some years since, in geological investigation in that grand field for practical study, 

 the dominion of Canada. I commenced under the guidance of my esteemed friend 

 and former teacher, Prof. AUeyne Nicholson, then of Toronto, to whom I am deeply 

 indebted for those initiatory lessons in practical work which have since proved in- 

 valuable to me. It was not until after trying my prentice hand on various subjects 

 that I was induced by one or two happy finds to adopt for my special study the task 

 of searching after and elucidating the fossils of the lower forms of animal life which, 



