xllY PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [June I912,.. 



But I do not forget that it is to Prof. Lebour, one of the Murchisoa 

 Medallists, that I owe my first introduction to geology. Without 

 his guidance and help I should never have become a geologist, nor 

 should I ever have come under the influence of Cambridge. 



Circumstances have seldom permitted me to devote undivided 

 attention to the study of our science, and my geological Tvork has- 

 suffered accordingly. It is encouraging to find that it has not 

 altogether failed, and I still hope in the future more fully to justify 

 the award for which I now thank the Council. 



AWAED EEO^l THE WoLLASTON DoNATTON FuND. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the WoUastoi? 

 Donation Pund to Charles Irvixg Gaedixee, M.A., the Presidext- 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Mr. Gardiner, — 

 The vacation times of a man so strenuously occupied as yourself 

 are very precious to him, and it is a compliment to the fascination 

 exercised by scientific research, and especially by the pursuit of 

 geological investigation, that you willingly give up so much of your 

 holidays to field-work in your chosen science. Mainly in association 

 with Professor lieynolds, you have patiently and unweariedly carried 

 out your steadfast programme, which I am glad to think was sug- 

 gested to you by myself, of increasing our knowledge of the older 

 Palaeozoic rocks of Ireland. Beginning at Kildare, you passed 

 thence by way of Lambay to Portraine, at each stage throwing new 

 light on the succession, and at the last-named locality unravelled 

 the different types of conglomerates, which in that neighbourhood 

 have been produced by earth-movement. Shifting your operations 

 to the south, you elucidated the succession of Silurian rocks in that 

 region and the unusual association of contemporaneous igneous 

 rocks Avith them. Then you proceeded to Mayo and Galway, dealing 

 with the areas of Tourmakeady, Lough Xafooey, and Glensaul in 

 turn ; and, judging by your latest paper, you seem to have been as 

 successful in this exceedingly difficult ground as in the simpler areas 

 previously dealt with. The Council, in awarding you the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the AVollaston Fund, does so, not only in recognition 

 of good work done, but in confidence that you will carry on equally 

 ffood work in the future. 



