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The Reports having been read, it was resolved : 



That these Reports be received and entered on the Minutes of the 

 Meeting ; and that such parts of them as the Council may think fit, 

 be printed and distributed among the Fellows. 



The President then addressed the Meeting in the following man- 

 ner : 



Gentlemen, 



You have just learnt from the Report of the Council that they have 

 this year awarded two Wollaston medals; one to Captain Proby 

 Cautley of the Bengal Artillery, and another to Dr. Hugh Falconer 

 of the Bengal Medical Service, for their geological researches and 

 their discoveries in fossil geology in the Sub-Himalayan mountains. 

 I shall now request one of our Secretaries, Dr. Royle, to take 

 charge of these medals. 



The President then addressed Dr. Royle : 

 Dr. Royle, 



It will, I am sure, be most gratifying to you to be intrusted with 

 the care of these testimonials of our regard for two gentlemen with 

 whom you are connected by the ties of private friendship. The 

 Geological Society awards these medals to Capt. Cautley and Dr. 

 Falconer as an expression of the sympathy which they feel for 

 those who are so zealously labouring in a distant country to pro- 

 mote a common cause. 



In the Address which I am now about to deliver to this Meeting, 

 I shall have an opportunity of enlarging on the discoveries which 

 these gentlemen have made in a region previously unexplored, at 

 the southern base of the Himalaya between the Sutledge and the 

 Ganges. I shall then speak of their perseverance and industry in 

 examining the structure of the hills, and in collecting the remains 

 of extinct quadrupeds and reptiles, and the talent displayed in 

 their anatomical determination of new species and new types of or- 

 ganization. I shall now merely request that in forwarding these 

 medals, the first which the Geological Society has sent to India, 

 you will express to Capt. Cautley and Dr. Falconer the lively in- 

 terest which we continue to take in their researches, and our ardent 

 hopes for their future welfare and success. 



Dr. Royle in reply expressed the high satisfaction he fell on 

 being requested to take charge of the medals, which it would give 

 him great pleasure to forward immediately to India. When in that 

 country, he had had personal opportunities of witnessing the zeal 

 and enthusiasm with which his friends had laboured, and the great 

 difficulties which they had overcome when far separated from the 

 scientific world, and without museums, books, or skilful naturalists 

 to consult. 



He was assured that these marks of attention so honourably 



