﻿PROCEEDINGS 



AT THK 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



21st FEBRUARY, 1851. 



Award of the Wollaston Medal and Donation Fund. 



After the Reports of the Council had been read, the President, Sir 

 Charles Lyell, delivered the Wollaston Palladium Medal to the Rev. 

 Adam Sedgwick, M.A., Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the 

 University of Cambridge, addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Sedgwick, — -The Council have informed the Society 

 in their Report that they have awarded to you the Wollaston Medal 

 of this year, for your original researches in developing the Geological 

 Structure of the British Isles, the Alps, and the Rhenish Provinces. 

 It was impossible for them to embody, in the brief terms of such an 

 award, an analysis of your numerous and varied labours, and almost 

 equally beyond my power to attempt to do the same in the few words 

 which I can now offer on this subject. I may, however, refer to your 

 memoirs on the Magnesian Limestone of the North of England, on 

 the Trap Rocks of Durham and Cumberland, on the Fossiliferous 

 Strata of the North of Scotland, and on the Isle of Arran, — your de- 

 scription of the Mountains of Cumberland and the adjoining Lake 

 District, and of North Wales, — your essays on Slaty Cleavage, — the 

 leading part you took in determining the true position and age of 

 those strata of Devon and Cornwall which we now term Devonian, 

 and lastly, your papers on the Alps and Rhenish Provinces. 



In addition to these contributions to science, the Society has seen 



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