part 1] ANNIYERSARY MEETING — WOLLASTON MEDAL. xlv 



to Prof. Lacroix. With no less pleasure, I am sure, will all 

 British geologists see his name added to a list which is already 

 gi-aced by the names of Elie de Beaumont and Ami Boue, Daubree 

 and Descloizeaux ; and they will acclaim this award the more 

 cordially since, in doing homage to a distinguished savant, we are 

 honom'ing a citizen of a great nation, with which our own is linked, 

 as we hope, by enduring ties. 



Sir Archibald G-eikie replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President, — 



It is both a signal honom* and a welcome pleasure to me to have 

 been requested by my friend Prof. Lacroix to receive this Medal on 

 his behalf. He has asked me to express to you and to the Society 

 his grateful thanks that you should have thought him worth}^ of 

 your highest prize, and at the same time to assure you how deep is 

 his regret that his official engagements prevent him from leaving 

 Paris and being with us here to-day. You are aware that he has 

 now added to his ordinary professional duties those of Secretaire 

 Perpetuel de 1' Academic des Sciences, thus following, at no great 

 interval of time, another eminent geologist of France, our lamented 

 Foreign Member A. de Lapparent. 



You have sketched with well-merited appreciation the wide range 

 of investigation through which our latest Wollaston Medallist has 

 pursued his studies. He has united with pre-eminent skill the 

 detailed work of the laboratory with an appeal to the essential 

 e^ddence which can only be obtained in the field. In this latter 

 branch of research he has been fortunate in having as his com- 

 panion and fellow-labourer a devoted and enthusiastic wife. 

 Madame Lacroix, as the daughter of Ferdinand Fouque, has 

 inherited her father's scientific ardour, and has proved herself to 

 be as capable and enduring a mountaineer as her husband. 



Prof. Lacroix has sent me a brief address to you, Mr. President, 

 expressive of his grateful recognition of the honour which the 

 Geological Societ}^ has conferred upon him. His handwriting, 

 however, is so difficult to decipher that I have ventured to make 

 a tmnslation of this Address, which I will now read : — 



' Mr. President, — 



' No honour could be more appreciated by me than that which the Geolo- 

 gical Society of London has conferred upon me. Over and above the pride 

 which I feel in this award from so many competent judges, among Avhom are 

 not a few who pursue the same researches as those to which I have devoted 



