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The Reports having been received, the Peesident requested the 

 permission of the Fellows to send a telegram of congratulation to 

 Emeritus Professor E. Stjess, F.M.G.S. ; and, this permission having 

 been granted with acclamation, the following telegram was 

 immediately despatched to Vienna : 



' Professor E. Suess, Afrikanergasse, 9 



Wien, II. 

 ' The Geological Society, assembled at its Annual Meeting, sends greeting, 

 and offers its congratulations to the veteran author of " Das Antlitz der 

 Erde " on the completion of his great work. Sollas, President.' 



AwAED OF THE WOLLASTON MEDAL. 



The Peesident then handed the Wollaston Medal, awarded to 

 Prof. William Beeeyman Scott, F.G.S., to the American - Ambassador 

 for transmission to the recipient, addressing the Ambassador as 

 follows : — 



Mr. Whitelaw Reid, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded the Wollaston 

 Medal, the highest honour which it can confer, to Prof. William B. 

 Scott, in recognition of his distinguished services to Geology, 

 especially by his brilliant researches into the Mammalia of the 

 Tertiary Era. 



It is now many years since Prof. Scott learnt from our famous 

 masters, Huxley and Gegenbaur, all that the old world had to 

 teach touching the comparative anatomy of the Vertebrata. Since 

 then, by his admirable researches on the extinct mammals of both 

 North and South America, he has helped to bring the New World 

 into equal authority with the Old. 



More than a quarter of a century ago he undertook, in company 

 with his friend Prof. Osborn, those exploratory expeditions into the 

 West of the United States which succeeded in exhuming from the 

 Tertiary rocks the debris of successive mammalian faunas, and 

 returned to the museums of the East laden with the spoils of the 

 past. Illumined by his genius, this material has gradually taken 

 form, and now reveals to an admiring world the ancestral history of 

 diverse existing mammals, such as the Camel, the Rhinoceros, and 

 the Dog. 



More recently he organized an expedition into Patagonia, which, 

 during three years of activity, proved equally fertile in results. 



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