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Hind as a token that he has, in the words of its Founder, 

 * deserved well of the Science.' 



On the side of descriptive and systematic palaeontology his two 

 memoirs on the Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata, published by the 

 Palseontographical Society, have long taken rank as standard 

 works, and he has supplemented them from time to time by many 

 other contributions dealing with the same subject. Further, he 

 has brought his palseontological knowledge to bear upon important 

 questions of stratigraphy, and has shown that the lamellibranch 

 faunas of different groujDs of rocks furnish valuable data for 

 purposes of comparison. In this way he has taken no small part 

 in the correlation of the Carboniferous strata in different areas in 

 Britain, and has further jDushed his enquiries to the Continent of 

 Europe. 



The quantity, as well as the quality, of his geological work 

 seems the more remarkable, when we remember that his researches 

 have been carried out in the intervals, noiie too frequent, of a busy 

 professional life. In conferring upon him this mark of recognition, 

 so well earned, we are thus honouring one of those amateur workers 

 to whom British Geology has always been signally indebted. In 

 presenting it I express the hope that, when happier days bring 

 again some allowance of leisure. Dr. Hind will be able to renew 

 those investigations which have already proved so rich in results. 



Dr. Smith Woodward replied in the following words : — 



Mr. Presidejtt, — 



I shall have much pleasure in transmitting the Lyell Medal to 

 my friend Dr. Wheelton Hind, on whom it has been so worthily 

 bestowed. Geological science has always been greatly indebted 

 to the medical profession for important advances made in their 

 brief intervals of leisure, and Dr. Hind has for many years 

 excellently maintained the old tradition. Recognizing the im- 

 portance of combining work in the field with detailed palseonto- 

 logical research in the study, he soon became one of the most 

 successful exponents of the modern methods of stratigraphical 

 geology. Beginning researches on the Carboniferous rocks in his 

 own district of North Staffordshire, he has gradually extended his 

 domain until, as you have well said, Sir, he has taken no small 

 part in the correlation of the Carboniferous strata of Britain. So 

 soon as he is released from the military duties which prevent his 



