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AWAED or THE WOLLASTOX MeDAL. 



In presenting the Wollaston Medal in duplicate to Dr. Bexjamix 

 Xeete Peach, F.E.S., and to Dr. Johx Hoexe, F.R.S.. tlie 

 Peesidext addressed them as follows : — ■ 



Dr. Peach and Dr. Hoexe, — 



Since the day,, two and twenty years ago. when the Society 

 accdainied your joint Avork in the Highlands of Scotland, you have 

 jointly and individually done much to advance our knowledge of 

 the mineral sti'uctui'e of the Earth. It is needless to enumerate 

 this in detail. As Director of the G-eological Survey in Scot- 

 land. Dr. Home, you have heen responsible not only for much 

 research of your own, but have aljly inspired and conti'oUed that 

 of others, and Dr. Peach, as geologist and palaeontologist, you have 

 added lustre to the reputation of the service to which you belonged 

 no less than of vourself, and the studv of the hig-her CiTistacea 

 of the Carboniferous rocks Avill especially remain mdebted to 

 your researches. Fully aware that each of you had amply earned 

 the liighest distinction in its poAver to grant, believing, too, that 

 any discrimination would alloy the satisfaction of the recipient^ 

 the Council decided, with one accord, to revert to a more than 

 sixty-year old precedent, and to award the Wollaston Medal in 

 duplicate. I am confident that the whole Society will be in 

 accord with the Council in this decision, aud it is a great grati- 

 fication to myself that Fate should have reserved for me the 

 cono-enial dutv of handinsr these Medals to vou in the name of the 

 Council and of the Society. 



Dr. Peach in reply, said : — 



]\rr. Peesidext, — 



I am unable to express my feelings as to the great honour that 

 the Geological Societ;^' has conferred on Dr. Home and myself in 

 considering that our work has been of such importance that they 

 should have awarded to us, in dupheate. the Palladium of our 

 science, the Wollaston Medal. 



It behoves me to say that anything that I have been enabled to 

 do has been mainly owing to my having been a member of the 

 staff of the Greological Survey under the guidance of such a 



