﻿Xlvi PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I908, 



which caused me to diverge from the path originally marked out for 

 me, and to give my allegiance to N'atural Science. 



On looking through the list of Murchison Medallists I was 

 reminded that last year the award was made to Mr. Harker; though 

 I have often regretted that Palaeontology did not secure his affection, 

 I am proud to appear next him in so honourable a list. In my under- 

 graduate-days Harker was one of my best friends, whose generous 

 help I am not likely to forget. I rejoice also to find myself in the 

 company of Prof. Goeppert and Prof. Roemer in the list of Medallists. 

 It was once my privilege to spend some weeks in examining the 

 classic collections of Goeppert in the University of Breslau, where the 

 hospitality of the late Ferdinand Roemer taught me that differences 

 in age and nationality count for little among those whose lives are 

 devoted to the common cause of Science. Prof. Geinitz, another 

 Murchison medallist, received me in Dresden twenty years ago with 

 a friendliness which made a lasting impression. The name of 

 Prof. Newberry reminds me of another friendly senior, who once 

 gave me more pleasure than he imagined by inviting me to luncheon 

 at his London hotel. 



To foUow such men as I have named is not merely an honour, but 

 a strong incentive to do my utmost to render myself less unworthy 

 of being permanently associated with them in the records of the 

 Society. 



Award of the Lyell Medal. 



In handing the Lyell Medal, awarded to Mr. Richard Dixoit 

 Oldham, P.G.S., to Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, P.R.S., for transmission 

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



Mr. Lamplugh, — 



In asking you to transmit to Mr. Oldham the LyeU. Medal, which 

 has been awarded to him, I would wish you to express to him the 

 appreciation of the Council of the value of the work which he has done 

 in the advancement of Geology. During his long connexion with 

 the Geological Survey of India, he was able to add much to our 

 knowledge of the geological structure of that great dependency. At 

 the same time he was always alive to the bearing of his observations 

 on the wider problems of our science. Besides his ordinary official 

 duties, he from time to time has undertaken special subjects of 



