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ANNIVERSARY MEETING — LYELL MED AX. 



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I may add that he is detained by responsible public duties, which 

 have the first claim upon his time. 



I have received a letter from Dr. Kidston which, with your 

 permission, I will read : — 



' Will you please express to the President my sorrow at not being able 

 to be present to thank the Society personally for the honour that they have 

 done me in presenting me with the Murchison Medal, an honour which, it is 

 needless for me to say, I very much value and appreciate. 



' The award of this Medal brings vividly to my memory that a number of 

 years ago the Society awarded to me the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Murchison Geological Fund, and I would like them to know that these proceeds 

 were spent in the purchase of books dealing with Palaeozoic Botany. It is 

 only workers situated where not a single book on their special subject of 

 study is obtainable for reference, who can fully appreciate the value of the 

 help that I received from that award, and I hope that the books will eventually 

 be placed where they will be of help to others. 



' I have now only to thank the Council of the Geological Society once more 

 for its kind and encouraging recognition of my work.' 



Award of the Lyell Medal. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Dr. Charles William 

 Andrews, F.R.S., the President addressed him as follows: — 



Dr. Andrews, — 



The Council has awarded to you the Lyell Medal as an acknow- 

 ledgment of the value of your numerous researches in Vertebrate 

 Palaeontology. Since your appointment to the Geological Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum in 1892, you have made excellent use 

 of the opportunities for research afforded by your official duties, 

 :and have made important contributions to our knowledge of fossil 

 reptiles, birds, and mammals. You were soon attracted by the 

 unique Leeds Collection of Oxfordian marine reptiles, and your 

 studies of this collection eventually culminated in the two handsome 

 volumes of the Descriptive Catalogue, published by the Trustees of 

 "the British Museum (1910-13), which must always remain a 

 standard work of reference on Ichthyopterygia, Sauropterygia, 

 and Crocodilia. Your papers on the South American Stereornithes, 

 on Rails from islands in the Southern Seas, and on Prophaethon 

 from the London Clay, are equally valuable contributions to our 

 knowledge of extinct birds. Your researches on the fossil mam- 

 mals of Egypt, many of them discovered by yourself, are still 

 more noteworthy ; and your Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary 



