PROCEEDINGS 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 17th FEBRUARY, 1860. 



Award op the Wollaston Medal and Donation Fund. 



After the Report of the Council had been read, the President, 

 Professor John Phillips, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., placed in tho hands 

 of Searles V. "Wood, Esq., the Wollaston Medal, saying : — 



Mr. Searles Wood, — Attached to the study of Natural History 

 in many of its branches, you have judged wisely in devoting your 

 earnest attention to one special field of research and one definite ob- 

 ject of publication. By the Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, you 

 have accomplished this object in regard to one of the most remark- 

 able of British Strata, and completed a research for which no one 

 had equal opportunities. Seldom indeed concur, as in tins instance, 

 superior knowledge of the data, special powers of illustration, and a 

 peculiar feeling of patriotic gratification in making known the fossils 

 with which you had been familiar from childhood. While placing 

 in your hands this well-earned tribute of respect, let me congratulate 

 through you tho Palccontographical Society, with whom your Crag 

 Mollusca find an honourable place, in that they have been enabled 

 to enrich their volumes with contributions of so finished a character 

 by Naturalists so patient, persevering, and successful. 



Mr. Searles Wood said in reply : — 



Sir, — I beg to return my grateful acknowledgements for tho 

 honour the Council of the Geological Society have conferred upon 

 me, and 1 feel proud to find my labours have been bo highly esti- 

 mated by those who have worked in a .similar field. My investi- 

 gations in the Crag have been purely a labour of love. Residing 

 for many years in the Crag country, I possessed great facilities for 

 collecting its fossils. This Formation appeared to me t>> pot 

 peculiar charms, uniting as it does the past with the present more 

 perhaps than any other; and fato seems almost to have identified 



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