﻿xlii PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I9IO, 



These are now being set forth in a series of exhaustive monographs, 

 to which Prof. Scott has already contributed a masterly account of 

 the genealogy of the Rodents and the Edentata. 



In his comprehensive grasp of the manifold relations which unite 

 the great complex of the animal world, and by his philosophic con- 

 ception of the course of organic evolution, Prof. Scott ranks among 

 the select few whom the future will number among the great 

 palaeontologists of the illustrious past. 



In asking you to receive this Medal for him, I beg you to assure 

 him of the deep interest with which the Society follows his investi- 

 gations, and to express the hope that he may live long to enrich our 

 Science with discoveries no less important than those wnich we 

 now celebrate. 



The Hon. Whitelaw Reid replied in the following words : — - 

 Mr. President, — 



I have much pleasure in appearing before this learned body, on 

 behalf of my distinguished countryman, Prof. Scott, to receive this 

 Medal for him and in his name. 



I may venture also to assure you of his warm thanks, and of the 

 high appreciation with which the great honour that you have thus 

 conferred — the greatest within your gift — will be regarded by 

 Prof. Scott himself, and by the noted and very important institution 

 with which he is connected — Princeton University, or ' Old Nassau,' 

 as its alumni love to call it. 



You have enhanced this honour by the cordial and gracious 

 language in which you have been pleased to extend it. It is 

 enhanced also by what I may perhaps call its family origin. We 

 all know too well how family disputes are apt to be the worst and 

 sometimes the most dangerous. Just so, no recognition of success 

 is so sweet as that from the circle of kindred. A generous tribute 

 like this, from the authoritative body of geologists in one branch 

 of the great English-speaking family, for good work done by a 

 leader in that important science in another branch of the same 

 family, is peculiarly grateful to the recipient himself, and grateful 

 also, as well as helpful and inspiring, to his University, to his friends, 

 and in general to his countrymen. 





