Xliv PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 899, 



Wollaston Medal to Prof. Lapworth, as you have both so largely 

 helped in the detailed working-out of subjects that he brought 

 before you. 



Mr. Peach, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. Peesident, — 



The honour which the Council of the Geological Society have 

 conferred upon me is highly prized by me, because it was by the 

 advice of Sir Eoderick Murchison that my thoughts were turned to 

 Geology as a career in life. By means of his generosity I was able 

 to avail myself of the scientific training afforded by the Royal 

 School of Mines, and through his nomination I received an 

 appointment on the Geological Survey. 



I ask you, Mr. President, to convey my heartfelt thanks to the 

 Council for having awarded me the Murchison Medal, which, for 

 me, has such tender associations. If anything could enhance the 

 pleasure of this Award, it is the receiving it from the hands of one 

 colleague and the sharing of it with another. 



Mr. HoENE also replied, as follows : — 

 Mr. President, — 



It is a source of great gratification to me that I have been 

 deemed worthy by the Council of this Society to receive the 

 Murchison Medal jointly with my old friend and colleague, Mr. 

 Peach. For he gave me my early training in field-work, and to 

 his range of knowledge and ample experience I have owed much 

 during my Survey career. 



It is likewise a special pleasure to be linked with the great 

 founder of this Medal, whose name is so closely associated with the 

 history of Scottish Geology. While preserving a feeling of loyalty 

 to our former chief and his successors in ofiice, we have at the same 

 time tried to exercise independence of judgment in dealing with 

 Scottish geological questions. In doing so, we have realized, 

 perhaps more vividly than others, the permanent value and brilliant 

 power of Prof. Lapworth's researches in Scotland, whose reception 

 at this anniversary of the highest honour which the Council can 

 bestow is a great pleasure to us. Regarding the Geology of the 

 North-western Highlands, we feel that our colleagues who have 

 worked with us in that complicated region justly share in the honour 

 which has been conferred upon us. 



