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further announced the awards of the various Medals and of the 

 proceeds of the Donation Funds in the gift of the Society. 



la handing the WoUaston Gold Medal to Dr. W. T. Blanford, 

 r.E.S., for transmission to Mr. George Busk, F.R.S., F.G.S., the 

 President addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Blanford, — The Council of the Geological Society has awarded to Mr. George 

 Busk the Wollastou Medal in recognition of the value of his researches in more than 

 one branch of Palaeontology. Polyzoa, not only fossil but also recent, he has made 

 peculiarly his own. and his numerous separate papers, his British Museum Catalogue, 

 and his memoir on the Polyzoa of the Crag, have entitled him to the lasting 

 gratitude of workers at this class of the Mulluscoida. But, perhaps as a relief to 

 the study of these minute invertebrates, he has occupied himself, not less successfully, 

 ■with the larger vertebiata, so that to him we are indebted for much information on 

 the fauna of Post- Tertiary deposits, especially from the caves of Malta and of 

 Brixham. Permit me, in handing you this Medal for transmission to Mr. Busk, 

 to express my pleasure at having such a duty to discharge, and my earnest hope, in 

 which I am sure all present will share, that restored health may enable him to 

 continue his work in the cause of our science. 



Dr. Blanford. in reply, expressed his gratification at being selected as the 

 medium for transmitting the WoUaston Medal to Mr. Busk, whose compulsory 

 absence he nevertheless greatly regretted, and from whom he read the following 

 letter : — 



" Dear Mr. President,— As, much to my regret and disappointment, I find myself 

 unable to attend the Annual Meeting, I must trespa^^s upon your kindness to express 

 my warmest thanks and best acknowledgments for the honour you and the Council 

 have conferred upon me in the award of the oldest of the Society's Medals, and 

 whose receipients form such a long and distinguished roll, to which any one may 

 indeed be proud to see his name added. 



" The honour, also, in my eyes, is doubly gratifying, as being the second testimonial 

 of the same kind, and showing the favourable estimation in which my tew labours have 

 been held by the Geological Society of London, whose continued prosperity and 

 usefulness will always be an object of my warmest wishes. 



" Believe me, yours very sincerely, 



"32, Harley Street, Feb. 19, 1885. George Busk." 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 AVollaston Donation Fund to Dr. Charles Callaway, F.G.S., and 

 addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Charles Callaway, — The Council of the Geological Society has awarded to 

 you the balance of the proceeds of the WoUaston Donation Fund, in recognition of 

 the value of your researches among the older British rocks. By your identification 

 of Upper Cambrian rocks in Shropshire you have placed beyond question the 

 antiquity of the Rhyolitic group of the Wrekin, our knowledge of which and of yet 

 older rocks in that district you have greatly augmented. Your contributions also to 

 the geology of Anglesey and to unravelling the stratigraphy of the Scotch Highlands 

 have been of great value, and we look forward to the results of iurther researches, 

 in aid of which I have great pleasure in placing in your hands the amount of the 

 award. That you receive it from a fellow-labourer will, 1 hope, make it not the 

 less welcome. 



Dr. Callaway, in reply, said : — Mr. President, — I highly value the honour which 

 the Council has seen fit to confer upon me, and I shall not readily forget the kind 

 words with which you have accompanied the award. We are told that the reward of 

 virtue is not bread ; but bread is a sustainer of virtue ; and in like manner, though 

 geology is its own reward, the geologist is conscious of discouragement if the appre- 

 ciation of his fellow-workers is withheld. I therefore regard this award as an 

 efi^ective stimulus to future exertion. It is a great pleasure to me to receive it at the 

 hands of one who has so often been a kindly helper in working out difficult problems 

 in lithology. 



The President then handed the Murchison Medal to Dr. Henry 



