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critical ability, combined, I need hardly say, with all courtesy. 

 Kindred Societies, too, have had the benefit of your work, in the 

 microchemical examination of minerals among other things. Nor 

 has your Indian experience remained unused. 



Labouring under the disadvantage of taking to the study of 

 Geology comparatively late in life, you have attacked it with the 

 energy of a British soldier, and have fought your way into the 

 foremost ranks of our petrologists. 



Lieut.-Gen. McMahox, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I feel deeply the honour conferred upon me by the Council of the 

 Geological Society in awarding to me the Lyell Medal, as a recogni- 

 tion of my humble efforts to advance the cause of Geological Science. 

 The pleasure which this has given me is greatly enhanced by the 

 kindly and flattering way in which you have spoken of my work, 

 and by the sympathy accorded to me on this occasion by the 

 Fellows of the Society. 



It is very gratifying for an amateur to have his work stamped 

 with the hall-mark by specialists who have made Geology the study 

 of their lives. I have always received help and encouragement 

 from professional geologists, and had it not been for the generous 

 aid which they have invariably been ready to afford, I should not this 

 day have been a recipient of the Lyell Medal. 



AWAED OE THE LtELL GEOLOGICAL FuND. 



In handing to Mr. Feedeeice: Chapman, A.L.S., F.E.M.S., a moiety 

 of the Balance of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, the 

 Peesident addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Chapman-, — • 



You have been an enthusiastic worker with the microscope for 

 many years, and half of the Balance of the Lyell Fund has been 

 awarded to you as a mark of our regard for what you have done 

 for the fossil Foraminifera and other Microzoa, much of your work 

 being published by the Eoyal Microscopical Society. 



Your earlier papers, written in conjunction with Mr. Sherborn, 



