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researches on the ancient rocks of Shropshire have as yet been 

 published only in abstract : the striking results at which you have 

 arrived lead us to hope that ere long they may be published in 

 fuU. 



In your address to the Geological Section of the British Asso- 

 ciation in 1892, you astounded your hearers by the way in which 

 you applied your knowledge of mountain-structure to questions of 

 the largest kind, showing a breadth of view that had not been 

 surpassed by any geologist. 



Lately, and in quite another line of work, in that admirable 

 Sketch of the Geology of the Birmingham District, issued by the 

 Geologists' Association last year, you have given us one of the best 

 accounts of any English district that we possess, weaving in the 

 work of others and giving the whole the character of a perfect 

 fabric. 



It is not only, however, for your work as a geologist that we wish 

 to honour you, but also for your work as a teacher. In saying this, 

 I do not refer merely to your professorial work, excellent though it 

 be, but rather to that much higher teaching, one may say that 

 highest of all teaching, the influence that you have had on your 

 fellow-workers in Geology. That influence is to be traced in much 

 of the best work that we have had of late years, and during our 

 present Session we have had important papers which, I venture to 

 say, would not have been written but for lines of thought suggested 

 by you. 



We look forward to a long continuance of your brilliant labours. 



Prof. Lapwoeth replied in the following words : — 

 Mr. Peesident, — 



I am deeply grateful to the Council of the Geological Society for 

 the great honour which they have conferred upon me by the award 

 of the Wollaston Medal ; and to you, Sir, for the kindly, and indeed 

 too kindly, terms in which you have referred to my scientific work. 



It was my happy lot to have, at the very outset of my geological 

 career, the aid and encouragement of a master in the science — my 

 dear friend, the late Prof. Alleyne Nicholson. It has been my good 

 fortune to live in districts where some new geological work could 

 be done. And more, since the day when I read my first geological 

 paper, I have been encouraged and stimulated by the friendship 

 and the sympathy of many earnest geologists. 



