part 1] ANlSriYERSAltY MEETIISTG BIGSBT MEDAL. H 



tive. I shall do 1113^ best to maintain in the prosecution of that 

 Survey the high scientific standard of which the official geologists 

 of the University of Strasbourg have given, in the past, so many 

 examples. 



In conclusion, Mr. President, let me state that it is a special 

 pleasure for me to receive the Medal from the hands of a friend 

 whose name has been associated for so many years with the 

 history of the Society, and who has himself contributed so 

 actively to the progress of Geology in the British Empire. 



Award or the Bigsby Medal. 



The President then handed the Bigsby Medal, awarded to 

 Lewis Leigh Fermor, D.Sc, to Dr. J. Coggix Browist, for 

 transmission to the recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Cog GIN Brown, — 



The Council of the (xeological Society has awarded the Bigsby 

 Medal to your col league j Dr. Fermor, in recognition of his 

 researches and other contributions to the advancement of Greology. 

 In his monumental work on Manganese in India he not only 

 collected and added to our knowledge of the manganese minerals, 

 describing several new ones, but did much to clarify and extend our 

 knowledge of their origin and transformations. Later his researches 

 on the Kodurite rocks of the eastern part of the Peninsula, and the 

 conclusions that they indicated regarding the change in volume 

 which takes place in the passage from one mode to another of the 

 same norm, led up to his distinction between the plutonic and the 

 infra-plutonic modes of solidification of the same magma, and have 

 given a new aspect to the treatment of several of the more im- 

 portant problems of geological speculation. Henceforward it will 

 be impossible to treat of the origin of mountain -ranges, of earth- 

 quakes, or of much of the deformation of the Earth's crust, 

 without taking Dr. Fermor's work into consideration. 



In these and other ways he has added to the store of geological 

 knowledge, and, as his colleague, I ask you to receive the Medal on 

 his behalf, and to transmit to him the Council's appreciation of the 

 eminent services which he has rendered to Geology. 



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