﻿Xliv PBOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I908, 



Mr. EuDLEK, in reply, read the following message received from 

 the recipient : — 



Mr. President, 



T regret that official duties at Munich prevent me from coming to 

 London to receive the "Wollaston Medal, and from thanking in 

 person the Council of the Geological Society for the great honour 

 conferred upon me. 



As my researches in Physical and Chemical Crystallography have 

 not been very closely related to Geology, while my Mineralo- 

 geological work on the mineral-deposits of the Alps, the rocks of 

 the Yosges, etc., has been of itself too unimportant to have afforded 

 a reason for the gift to me of the highest distinction that the 

 Geological Society of London has to bestow, I am compelled to regard 

 the award of the Medal as intended to be a recognition of my work, 

 during many years, as a teacher of Mineralogy and Crystallography 

 to pupils who were, many of them. Geological students. 



I rejoice to be able to say that from no country have better 

 pupils come to my laboratory and lectures than from England 

 itself, and that it has been a great happiness to continue with such 

 pupils the work which Prof. Miller founded at Cambridge with his 

 introduction of Rational Indices, and which my highly-esteemed 

 friend Prof. Maskelyne did so much to encourage at Oxford by his 

 lectures on Crystalline Symmetry. 



In this sense, as a fellow- worker in the scientific training of the 

 junior mineralogists of England, I have pleasure in accepting, with 

 the most hearty thanks, the distinction conferred upon me, and hope 

 to be permitted to give like help to other pupils from the same 

 country in the more immediate future. 



Award of the Mtjrchison Medal. 



The President then presented the Murchison Medal to Prof. 

 Albert Charles Seward, E.R.S., addressing him in the following 

 words : — 



Professor Seward, — 



The Murchison Medal is awarded by the Council to you as a mark 

 of appreciation of the services you have rendered to geological science 



