Hi PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [April I914, 



conjunction with many geologists, including T. Roberts, Nicholson, 

 Harker, Garwood, and Fearnsides. Two of them have, alas ! passed 

 away, and one of the great griefs of my life was the loss of that 

 ardent geologist and genial companion, Alleyne Nicholson. 



My long association with this Society as Officer and Member of 

 Council has brought me into contact for many je^rs with men 

 from whom I could learn the results of the recent discoveries in 

 our science. 



I regard this Award as made, not only to myself, but to the 

 Cambridge School of Geology ; and in speaking of this school 

 I would first bear tribute to the advantage of the teaching which 

 I received in my undergraduate days from Prof. Hughes and 

 Prof. Bonney. During the 'seventies a number of brilliant 

 geologists emerged from that school, of whom you, Sir, were one. 

 I cannot help acknowledging also the benefits of the teaching in 

 ijhe field, which I received from an Oxford man whom I have the 

 honour of counting as a friend of over forty years' standing — 

 Mr. Tiddeman. 



I have, as you observed, for many years, been myself a teacher in 

 the Cambridge School, and here again have benefited from the 

 ardour and enthusiasm of my pupils. Their cordial congratu- 

 lations to me on receiving this Award show that they, as well 

 as I, appreciate the honour. 



Before passing from the subject of Cambridge, I must refer, Sir, 

 to our old College. It is, no doubt, a satisfaction to you as to me 

 to rind the names of five members of St. John's enrolled in the list 

 of the Wollaston Medallists within the last twenty-five years. 



I thank the Council most sincerely for the bestowal of this their 

 highest award. There is, however, an honour which I should rank 

 still higher, and that is the cordial approval which I feel that the 

 Council and geneial body of the Fellows would accord to one who 

 did his utmost to serve the interests of the Science and of the 

 Geological Society to the end of his life. The desire to gain this 

 approval will surely stimulate me to work in the future. 



Award of the Murchison Medal. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to 

 Mr. William Augustus Edmokd Ussher, F.G.S., addressing 

 him in the following words : — 



