5© PEOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



AWAED OF THE LyELL MeDAL. 



The Peesideistt then presented the Lyell Medal to Mr. John Evans, 

 D.C.L., LL.D., E.E.S., F.G-.S., and addressed him as foUows :— 



Dr. Eyans, — 



The Council has awarded to you the Lyell Medal and the sum of 

 twenty guineas from the proceeds of the fund, in recognition of your 

 distinguished services to geological science, especially in the depart- 

 ment of post-tertiary geology. I can well remember the time when 

 there appeared to be an almost impassable gulf between anti- 

 quarians and geologists ; but you and your fellow workers have so 

 completely bridged over that gulf, that we now can scarcely say 

 where archaeology ends and geology begins, nor whether to rank 

 and value you most as an antiquary or a geologist. Your long- 

 continued labours and valuable writings on flint implements have 

 equally advanced both the sciences to which I have alluded, and 

 thrown great light on that most interesting problem — the antiquity 

 of man. As another claim on our highest regard, I would refer to 

 the great services you have rendered to this Society in every possible 

 way that could advance its interests and that of our science. We 

 feel assured that the founder of this Medal would have heartily ap- 

 proved of the award, since your researches have been so intimately 

 connected with those subjects which in his later years attracted so 

 much of his attention. 



Dr. Evans in reply, said : — 



Mr. Peesident, — 



It is with much gratification that I receive this award at your 

 hands, for I regard it not only as a kindly mark of appreciation on 

 the part of yourself and the Council, but also as a memorial of my 

 old and valued friend and master Sir Charles Lyell. This Medal 

 has, indeed, a peculiar interest to me in connexion with him ; for it 

 was while I was one of your Secretaries that he did me the honour 

 of consulting me as to the foundation of this fund; and, sub- 

 sequently, it was as your President that I had the satisfaction of 

 handing the first LyeU Medal and the first proceeds of the Eund to 

 no less distinguished a geologist and palaeontologist than Prof. 

 Morris. I am highly fiattered to find myself associated with him 

 and other eminent geologists in the list of the recipients of this 

 Medal, and only wish that I was equally deserving of the honour. 

 What little I may have done, either directly or indirectly, to pro- 

 mote the advance of geological knowledge, has been mainly the 

 result of my now somewhat long connexion with this Society, and 

 the many valuable and, I hope, enduring friendships with its Eellows 

 that I have thus been enabled to make. This connexion is one 

 upon which I look back with unalloyed satisfaction, and of which 

 this Medal will always preserve the record. 



