Xlviii PEOCEEDIN^GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 899 



were based on the London Clay of our immediate neighbourhood, 

 and then on that of Sheppey. 



You have also dealt with the Foraminifera of the Gault, writing 

 a set of ten papers specially on the Gault of Folkestone (1891-98). 

 The microscopic fauna of the Phosphatic Chalk, of the marl and 

 silts of Barry Docks, and of Barbados deposits have been described 

 by you in our Journal, and you have also given us an elaborate 

 paper on the Bargate Beds and their Microscopic Contents (1894). 

 Rhsetic Foraminifera you have described in the ' Annals & Magazine 

 of Natural History,' Pleistocene Ostracoda and Jurassic Microzoa 

 in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, nor have you 

 neglected recent Foraminifera. 



That you should have so well used the opportunities which you 

 have had while serving under Prof. Judd is a source of satisfaction 

 to us, and we hope that this Award may be an encouragement to 

 you in further researches. 



Mr. Chapman-, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. Peesident, — 



I desire to express my sincere thanks to the Council of this 

 Society for selecting me as one of the recipients of the Lyell 

 Award, and to you, Sir, for the very encouraging words with which 

 you have honoured me. 



However little my work in the past may have merited this dis- 

 tinction, I trust that, with further opportunities, my later endeavours 

 in Micropalseontology and other branches of microscopical work will 

 in some degree justify this selection. 



I cannot let this occasion pass, without saying how much direct 

 help and advantage I have derived from the methods of geological 

 research carried out in Prof. Judd's laboratory at the Eoyal 

 College of Science. 



Nor would I forget the invaluable advantages which I have derived 

 from the friendship of those engaged in the same line of research, 

 and especially are my obhgations due to Prof. T. Rupert Jones and 

 Mr. C. Davies Sherborn. 



The Peesident then handed the other moiety of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. John Waed, F.G.S., 

 addressing him as follows : — 



