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proficiency in invertebrate is evidenced by your earlier work, botb stratigrapbical and 

 directly palteontological. Furthermore, your excellent edition of tlie first volume of 

 Phillips's " Blanual of Geology" indicates an exceptional familiarity with the 

 literature of our science. Since oxu- acquaintance first began, some twenty years 

 since, at Cambridge, we have both had our disappointments and oiu- successes ; you, 

 undiscouraged by the one, undated by the other, have pushed on to your present 

 high position in science, making no enemies, winning many friends. I trust that 

 your future career may be even more prosperous than your past, and that this Medal 

 may be an augury of many good gifts of fortune. You will, I know, believe me 

 when I say that I feel an exceptional pleasure in being commissioned to place in your 

 hands this Medal, commemorative of the great geologist whose philosophic spirit you 

 so well appreciate, and whose memory, I know, you so greatly revere. 



Professor Seeley, in reply, said :— Mr. President, — No words of mine could 

 adequately reflect my sense of the kind words and kind feelings to which you have 

 given expression. I must, however, say that the honour of this award is one for 

 which I am sincerely grateiul. It is needless now to say anything in admiration of 

 Lyell, but J may give utterance to a sense of personal obligation by saying that he 

 has always seemed to me the greatest teacher of our science. In receiving the 

 Medal, however, which is associated with his name, I cannot but be conscious how 

 far short what I have done has fallen of my efforts and aspirations, and that more 

 work than I can hope to do should have been before you in justification. With 

 regard to the new edition of Phillips's Geology, I would say that that work, founded 

 on the necessities of my own teaching, was undertaken to do honour to the memory 

 of my old friend. Professor John Phillips ; but it would have been more imperfectly 

 done without the important help which I found in yoiu" own writings. I shall find 

 in this award a stimulus to future wirk, which I hope may give results more worthy 

 of recognition than the work to which you have referred. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. J. J. H. Teall, F.G.S., for transmission 

 to Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, F.G S., and addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Teall, — The balance of the Lyell Donation Fund has been awarded to Mr. 

 A. J. Jukes-Browne in recognition of the excellent work that he has done on the 

 Cretaceous formation and on Glacial geology, and to aid him in further researches. 

 His papers on the Cambridge Greensand cleared up many difficulties connected with 

 tliat interesting formation ; and in his Segdwick prize essay on the Post-tertiary 

 deposits of Cambridgeshire he commenced those investigations which have since 

 brought us more than one valuable contribution on glacial and later deposits. You 

 can tell him that his old college tutor feels a little pardoiiable pride and much real 

 pleasure in being the instrument of placing this award in your hands for transmission 

 to him. 



Mr. Teall, in reply, expressed his regret that Mr. Jukes-Browne was prevented 

 by domestic anxieties from being present, and read an extract from a letter received 

 from him. In this Mr. Jukes-Browne said : — 



' ' That my labours in the field of geology should have been thought worthy of 

 such recognition is most gratifying and encouraging, and I am especially pleased that 

 the award should come from the Lyell Donation Fund ; for among all the departed 

 ma>ters of our science there is no one for whom I feel greater respect than for Sir 

 Charles Lyell, or whose mental attitude I more desire to imitate. To be entered 

 therefore on the roll of those who are deemed worthy of receiving the award instituted 

 by Sir Charles Lyell will always be a source of extreme pleasure. 



" I need hardly assure the Council and Fellows of the Society that .such strength 

 and powers as I possess will be spent in the service of geological science, because 

 that must be so as long as I am connected with the Geological Survey ; but this 

 ■mark of their approbation will stimulate me in the performance of s\ich extra official 

 work as I am able to accomplish, and I only wish that my health would allow me to 

 do more." 



In presenting the Bigsby Gold Medal to Professor Eenard, of 

 Brussels, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Renard, — When to a familiarity with geology in the field and a love of 

 natui-e are united the skill of a finished chemist and the expsrience of a practised 



