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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  [May 
  1 
  89 
  7,. 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  Palaeontographical 
  Society, 
  you 
  have 
  given 
  us 
  works 
  of 
  con- 
  

   siderable 
  importance. 
  You 
  have 
  also 
  published 
  many 
  other 
  valuable 
  

   papers 
  which 
  have 
  added 
  much 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge, 
  and 
  all 
  recognize 
  

   that 
  you 
  have 
  placed 
  yourself 
  in 
  the 
  foremost 
  rank 
  amongst 
  those 
  

   who 
  have 
  devoted 
  themselves 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  minute 
  fossil 
  organisms. 
  

   The 
  Medal 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  more 
  worthily 
  bestowed 
  than 
  upon 
  one 
  who 
  

   has 
  always 
  so 
  earnestly 
  laboured 
  for 
  the 
  advancement 
  of 
  truth, 
  and 
  

   I 
  have 
  very 
  great 
  pleasure 
  in 
  handing 
  it 
  to 
  you. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Hinde, 
  in 
  reply, 
  said 
  : 
  — 
  

   Mr. 
  President, 
  — 
  

  

  It 
  gives 
  me 
  sincere 
  gratification 
  to 
  receive 
  at 
  your 
  hands 
  the 
  

   Lyell 
  Medal, 
  remembering 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  intended, 
  in 
  the 
  words 
  of 
  its 
  

   liberal-minded 
  Pounder, 
  as 
  a 
  mark 
  of 
  honorary 
  distinction 
  and 
  as 
  

   an 
  expression 
  that 
  the 
  recipient 
  ' 
  has 
  deserved 
  well 
  of 
  the 
  Science/ 
  

   That 
  so 
  competent 
  a 
  tribunal 
  as 
  the 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  

   Society 
  regards 
  my 
  Palaeontological 
  work 
  as 
  meriting 
  this 
  recogni- 
  

   tion, 
  is 
  to 
  me 
  a 
  source 
  of 
  lively 
  satisfaction. 
  

  

  I 
  can 
  only 
  regret 
  that 
  so 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  my 
  aim 
  

   to 
  accomplish 
  still 
  remains 
  to 
  be 
  done 
  : 
  the 
  encouragement 
  which 
  

   you 
  have 
  given 
  me 
  to 
  persevere 
  will 
  not, 
  I 
  hope, 
  be 
  without 
  result,- 
  

   but 
  whilst 
  the 
  field 
  of 
  investigation 
  is 
  ever 
  widening 
  and 
  the 
  

   materials 
  are 
  constantly 
  accumulating, 
  the 
  capacity 
  to 
  keep 
  level 
  with 
  

   the 
  work 
  becomes, 
  with 
  the 
  lapse 
  of 
  time, 
  a 
  diminishing 
  quantity. 
  

  

  I 
  wish 
  here 
  gratefully 
  to 
  acknowledge 
  the 
  large 
  measure 
  of 
  help' 
  

   which 
  has 
  been 
  freely 
  given 
  to 
  me 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  my 
  work 
  by 
  my 
  

   brother 
  geologists 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  and 
  more 
  par- 
  

   ticularly 
  my 
  indebtedness 
  to 
  my 
  friend 
  and 
  indefatigable 
  colleague, 
  

   Mr. 
  Howard 
  Pox, 
  in 
  working 
  out 
  our 
  joint 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  Radiolarian 
  

   Bocks 
  of 
  Devon. 
  

  

  Por 
  the 
  kindly, 
  sympathetic, 
  and 
  very 
  generous 
  terms 
  in 
  which 
  

   you, 
  Sir, 
  have 
  referred 
  to 
  what 
  I 
  have 
  done, 
  I 
  desire 
  to 
  express 
  my 
  

   warmest 
  thanks. 
  

  

  Award 
  of 
  the 
  Lyell 
  Geological 
  Fund. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  then 
  handed 
  one 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  Balance 
  of 
  the 
  

   Proceeds 
  of 
  the 
  Lyell 
  Geological 
  Fund 
  to 
  W. 
  J. 
  Lewis 
  Abbott, 
  Esq.,. 
  

   addressing 
  him 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Abbott, 
  — 
  

  

  Some 
  twenty 
  years 
  ago 
  you 
  read 
  an 
  important 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  