J^art 1] AIS^NIYEESAET MEETING WOLLASTOIN' MEDAL. xlvil 



saccession o£ illustrious chiefs as Murchison, Ramsay, Geikie, and 

 Teall, and in constant association with the other members of the 

 staff. 



It has been my great good fortune to have been placed in, 

 Scotland, at the very movable verge of a great continental mass, 

 and especially among the older rocks which have retained many 

 traces of the vicissitudes through which our country has passed. 



You have been good enough to refer to my paliBontological work 

 on the Carboniferous higher Crustacea, which has been a great 

 pleasure to myself. I felt that I had to do something in this 

 field, to justify the training which I received from Huxlej^ and 

 Salter. 



I feel deeply indebted to the G-eological Society for the con- 

 stant encouragement afforded to Dr. Home and myself during 

 our career, an encouragement which now culminates in this 

 expression of their continued goodwill. I beg, Mr. President, to 

 assure ^^outhat it is a great j^leasure to receive the Medal from 

 your hands during your term of office. 



Dr. HoRNE also replied, in the following words : — 



Mr. Peesident, — 



To be enrolled as a recipient of the Wollaston Medal jointly 

 with my lifelong friend and brilliant colleague. Dr. Peach, is. 

 an honour which I highly prize. Scottish geological problems 

 have always been of absorbing interest, largely owing to their 

 complicated character. They have been studied by many in- 

 vestigators, among whom, in our time, Charles Lapworth stands 

 supreme. He established on a firm basis the zonal method of 

 mapping the older Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands, and 

 his researches in the North- West Highlands threw a flood of light 

 on the tectonics of that region. 



We, too, have been fascinated by these problems, and have 

 striven to increase our knowledge of the geological history of the 

 land that we love. It is a source of gratification to us that the 

 Council have deemed our efforts worthy of such signal recognition. 

 Our colleagues who joined in the work share this honour with us,, 

 notably Dr. Clough, whose marvellous power of detailed mapping- 

 has left a permanent mark on Scottish geology. I feel sure that 

 this award will also be a stimulus to younger workers north of the- 

 Border, who now pursue these problems with great enthusiasm. 



