Xlii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETT. [May 1 898, 



been awarded by the Council of the Geological Society to Mr. Thomas 

 F. Jamieson, in recognition of his long and important researches 

 amoDg the Glacial Deposits of Scotland. It is an interesting fact 

 that Mr. Jamieson's first papers were communicated to this Society 

 through Sir Roderick Murchison, the founder of this Medal. From 

 the year 1858, when he read a paper before the Society on the Pleisto- 

 cene Deposits of Aberdeenshire, up to the present time, Mr. Jamieson 

 has continued his researches with nnabated enthusiasm, and the 

 Geological Society has received many valuable communications from 

 him. The list includes papers on ' Drift and Rolled Gravel of 

 Northern Scotland ' in 1860, and ' Ice-worn Rocks of Scotland,' 1862, 

 in which he describes great erosion by ice-action and the presence 

 of boulders far above the parent rock, and gives a sketch-map of 

 Scotland showing the direction of the glacial markings. In 1863 

 was published his well-known paper on the Parallel Roads of Glen 

 Roy, in which he claims that they are beaches of freshwater lakes — 

 the lakes having originated from glaciers damming the mouths of 

 valleys and reversing their drainage. Further papers on Glacial 

 questions were communicated by him to the Socieiy in 1865, 1866, 

 1871, 1874, 1882, and 1891, and he may, I think, claim to have done 

 more probably than any other man for the Glacial Geology of Scotland. 

 It must not be forgotten also that this Society always received 

 the first fruits of his labours, and that his most important papers are 

 to be found in our Quarterly Journal. These papers are full of care- 

 fully observed facts, and abound in valuable suggestions. Many 

 of the views advocated by him in some of his earlier papers have 

 been since further advanced by him and other observers in this and 

 other countries. I will ask you, therefore, to be good enough, in 

 transmitting this Medal to Mr. Jamieson, to express to him the 

 admiration of the Council for the energy and ability with which he 

 has for so long a period, and with such signal success, prosecuted 

 researches amongst the newer deposits in Scotland. 



Mr. HoEACE B. WooDWAED replied in the following terms : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I esteem it an honour to receive this Medal on behalf of 

 Mr. Jamieson, for no one has laboured more ardently, no one more 

 successfully, than he, in interpreting the Pleistocene records of 

 North Britain. He bids me say : — 



' I regret much that my distance from the metropolis will not 



