part 1] ANNIVERSARY MEETING BIGSBY MEDAL. xlvil 



bring together the results of the last twenty years of work in Egypt and 

 place them on permanent record. I ask the Council of the Society and its 

 President to accept my most hearty thanks for their encouragement, in again 

 associating me with a memorial of the great man whom I desire in so many 

 respects to follow.' 



AWARD OE THE BiGSBY MEDAL. 



The President then presented the Bigsby Medal to Major Sir- 

 Douglas Mawson, D.Sc, addressing him as follows : — 



Sir Douglas Mawson, — 



In awarding to you the Bigsby Medal the Council feels that it 

 has secured a recipient who fulfils ideally the unusual conditions 

 of the bequest. Well within the stipulated limit of age, you have 

 given most assured proof that you are 'not too young to have done 

 much,' and your unabated energy and application are evidence 

 that you are ' not too old for further work.' 



Your arduous geological researches in the New Hebrides, in the 

 Broken-Hill district and in several other difficult regions in 

 Australia, as well as your systematized study of Australian minerals,, 

 are in themselves a weighty achievement; and the measure is more 

 than filled from your indomitable work as a scientific explorer on 

 the Antarctic continent. You have added greatly to our knowledge 

 of the structure and conditions of that forbidding land, and we 

 anticipate still further advantage from the publication of the full 

 results of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, of which you were 

 the organizer and leader. During that expedition every quality of 

 your mind and body was put severely to the test, and not found 

 wanting. I hand to you this Medal as a token of our grateful 

 regard. 



Sir Douglas Mawson replied in the following words : — 



Mr. PRESIDENT, 



The honour which the Council has so kindly conferred upon me 

 at your hands is deeply appreciated by me. I am very proud to 

 be associated with those investigators whose names appear as 

 former recipients of the Bigsby Medal. 



Any credit that my work deserves must be shared by my old 

 friend and instructor, Col. (Prof.) T. W. E. David, whose presence 

 here I am sdad to note on this occasion. The Professor, who has 



