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AWABD OF THE WoLL ASTON" MeDAL. 



In handing the WoUaston Medal, awarded to Prof. Paul von 

 Groth, F.M.G.S., to Mr. F. W. Hudler, I.S.O., for transmission 

 to the recipient, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Etjdler, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has this year assigned its 

 highest distinction, the Wollaston Medal, to Prof. Paul von Groth 

 in recognition of the value of his lifelong services in the investi- 

 gation of ' the mineral structure of the Earth.' His original 

 researches have placed him among the leaders of mineralogy and 

 crystallography in our day ; and his right to that eminent position 

 has been greatly enhanced by the genius which he has shown 

 in the teaching of his subject, by the organization of his laboratory 

 for advanced trainiDg, by the admirable arrangement and execution 

 of his text-books, and by the zeal and success with which for thirty 

 years he has edited and published his now indispensable ' Zeitschrift 

 fur Krystallographie & Mineralogie.' His laboratory has become 

 the Mecca of modern mineralogy, to which pilgrims repair from all 

 parts of the world to learn . the methods of the great Master at 

 Munich. His remarkable personal charm has endeared him to all 

 who have come into close contact with him, and who discover that 

 he is at once one of the most retiring and yet most popular of 

 scientific men. 



It is to myself a peculiar pleasure that I should be privileged on 

 the present occasion to transmit the award of the Council to so old 

 a personal friend of my own. He will, I am sure, regard the Medal 

 with special interest, since it bears the name and the effigy of one 

 of the foremost of English mineralogists, whose reflecting goniometer 

 was doubtless a familiar instrument in Prof, von Groth's hands from 

 his student-days onwards. In asking you to receive it for him, I 

 would wish you to convey with it an expression of the cordial wishes 

 of the Society for his prolonged health and activity. We earnestly 

 trust that he will not only be able to complete the gigantic task of 

 his 'Chemische Krystallographie,' but continue for many years there- 

 after to reap the fruits of his labour by witnessing the quickened 

 advance of the science to which he has so unremittingly devoted his 

 strenuous life. 



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