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assure you, Sir, that I shall lose no opportunity of continuing the 

 work to which you have referred. Although the greater part of 

 my time is occupied by official daties in the lecture-room and 

 museum, yet it is encouraging to hope that, as a teacher, I may be 

 an indirect means of helping forward palaeontological investigation. 

 In my ' Catalogue of Type Possils in the Woodwardian Museum,' 

 of which you have so kindly spoken, I endeavoured to give not 

 only a list of types, but also a record of the persons who have 

 enriched the collections in our Museum, and among those bene- 

 factors you, Sir, occupy a prominent place. 



The President then presented the other moiety of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Mr. W. H. Shrtjbsole, 

 P.Gr.S., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Shrtjbsole, — 



For many years your name, as well as that of two of your 

 brothers, has been well known to the Fellows of this Society, and 

 it is a pleasure to me to hand to you, on behalf of the Council, this 

 moiety of the Lyell Fund, in testimony of the valuable services 

 rendered by you to Geological Science. 



Although during your long residence at Sheerness you were 

 engaged in business, you lost no opportunity of advancing the 

 science of Geology, to which you had become so ardently attached, 

 and by your exertions you greatly added to our knowledge of the 

 Fauna and Flora of the Lower Eocene of the Isle of Sheppey. 



Among your discoveries, which have been described in the 

 Quarterly Journal of this Society, may be mentioned the wing- 

 bones and skull of a bird allied to the albatross, named by Owen 

 Argillornis longipennis (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1878) ; a new 

 genus and species of Estuarine Gasteropods, described by Lieut.- 

 Col. Godwin- Austen in 1882 ; and the remains of a giant turtle, 

 named by Owen Chelone gigcis (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1889). 

 I understand that your collections of fossil fruits were also of 

 great use to Baron von Ettingshausen and Mr. Starkie Gardner 

 in working out the Flora of the Eocene ; and that all your choicest 

 specimens (including another new bird's skull) have been invariably 

 transmitted to the British Museum so soon as discovered. Those 

 who are acquainted with your labours will feel that this Award of 

 the Council has been given to a thoroughly meritorious fellow- 

 worker, and a most patient original scientific investigator. 



