﻿Vol. 
  53.] 
  ANNIVERSARY 
  MEETING 
  LTELL 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  FUND. 
  xlv 
  

  

  Formation 
  of 
  Agates 
  before 
  the 
  Geologists' 
  Association, 
  and 
  since 
  

   then 
  you 
  have 
  contributed 
  much 
  additional 
  valuable 
  information 
  in 
  

   regard 
  to 
  their 
  origin. 
  For 
  many 
  years 
  you 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  a 
  

   careful 
  and 
  energetic 
  collector 
  of 
  fossil 
  remains, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  imple- 
  

   ments 
  worked 
  by 
  early 
  man 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  remarkable 
  collection 
  shown 
  

   by 
  you 
  at 
  the 
  recent 
  Conversazione 
  in 
  the 
  rooms 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  

   testifies 
  to 
  your 
  keen 
  and 
  accurate 
  discrimination. 
  Your 
  researches, 
  

   as 
  shown 
  in 
  your 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  Ossiferous 
  Fissures 
  in 
  the 
  Yalley 
  of 
  

   the 
  Shode 
  near 
  Ightham, 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  in 
  1894, 
  and 
  in 
  other 
  papers 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  

   of 
  the 
  Geologists' 
  Association, 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Anthropological 
  

   Institute, 
  and 
  ' 
  Natural 
  Science,' 
  have 
  greatly 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  faunas, 
  

   and 
  therefore 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  history, 
  of 
  the 
  Pleistocene 
  

   and 
  early 
  post-Pleistocene 
  periods. 
  

  

  The 
  Council 
  in 
  making 
  this 
  Award 
  desire 
  not 
  only 
  to 
  express 
  to 
  

   you 
  their 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  which 
  you 
  have 
  already 
  done, 
  but 
  

   hope 
  that 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  an 
  incentive 
  to 
  further 
  researches. 
  It 
  gives 
  me 
  

   much 
  pleasure 
  to 
  place 
  this 
  Award 
  in 
  your 
  hands. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Abbott 
  replied 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Mr. 
  President, 
  — 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  deeply 
  grateful 
  to 
  you, 
  Sir, 
  and 
  the 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  Geolo- 
  

   gical 
  Society 
  collectively, 
  for 
  the 
  great 
  honour 
  conferred 
  upon 
  me 
  

   in 
  thus 
  appreciating 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  my 
  labours 
  ; 
  and 
  to 
  you, 
  Sir, 
  

   personally 
  for 
  the 
  very 
  kind, 
  appreciative 
  words 
  with 
  which 
  you 
  

   have 
  supplemented 
  it. 
  There 
  is, 
  doubtless, 
  a 
  great 
  reward 
  in 
  store 
  

   for 
  all 
  those 
  who 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  contribute 
  to 
  the 
  stock 
  of 
  human 
  

   knowledge 
  — 
  -a 
  reward 
  which 
  comes 
  with 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  anything 
  

   new. 
  But, 
  after 
  all, 
  there 
  is 
  something 
  which 
  is 
  perhaps 
  even 
  

   greater 
  to 
  frailly 
  constituted 
  humanity 
  than 
  that 
  : 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  receive 
  

   such 
  tangible 
  proofs 
  as 
  this 
  that 
  others 
  admit 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  one's 
  

   labours. 
  It 
  comes 
  as 
  a 
  potent 
  antidote 
  for 
  weeks 
  and 
  months 
  of 
  

   almost 
  barren 
  research, 
  a 
  grateful 
  compensation 
  for 
  midnight 
  oil 
  

   expended 
  and 
  pecuniary 
  losses 
  sustained, 
  and 
  a 
  wholesome 
  incentive 
  

   to 
  renewed 
  energy 
  in 
  the 
  future. 
  I 
  am 
  all 
  the 
  more 
  proud 
  of 
  the 
  

   honour 
  conferred 
  upon 
  me, 
  in 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   the 
  great 
  Ambassador 
  of 
  ' 
  the 
  Causes 
  now 
  in 
  operation': 
  for 
  assuredly, 
  

   if 
  there 
  is 
  one 
  branch 
  of 
  Geology 
  more 
  than 
  another 
  calculated 
  to 
  

   make 
  one 
  realize 
  the 
  applicability 
  of 
  these, 
  it 
  is 
  that 
  in 
  which 
  I 
  

   have 
  been 
  chiefly 
  engaged, 
  where 
  we 
  stand 
  one 
  foot 
  on 
  to-day 
  and 
  

   the 
  other 
  on 
  yesterday, 
  and 
  note, 
  with 
  equal 
  distinctness 
  and 
  certainty 
  

  

  