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Dr. CoGGix Beowx. in reply, said : — 



Mr. Peesidext, — 



It is a privilege to receive this Medal and to undertake the 

 dutv of forwardino" it to mv friend and eolleao;ue, Dr. Fermor. 

 The investigations in which he is at present engaged have led him 

 into a somewhat isolated part of India, and have prevented the 

 receipt of any communication in time for this Meeting. Yet 

 they justify abundantly those terms of the Bigsby Bequest -which 

 require from the medallist the promise of future results in addition 

 to the records of a meritorious past. I can assure you that this 

 token of the recos^nition of his researches will o^ive Dr. Fermor 

 the greatest satisfaction, and I thank the Council of the Society 

 in his name, and on behalf of the Service to which he belongs. 

 It is an additional honour' to accept the award from the hands of 

 one so distino^uished in the annals of Indian oreolo2:v as vourself. 



AWAED FEOAT THE AVoLLASTOX DoXATIOX FuXK. 



In handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund, awarded to Thomas Owex Boswoeth, D.Sc, 

 to Dr. Heebeet H. Thomas for transmission to the i-ecipient, 

 the Peesidext addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Thomas, — 



The Council has awarded the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 "Wollaston Donation Fund to Dr. Bosworth in recognition of his 

 o:eolo2:ical work. His older Avork on the o-ranites of the Ross of 

 Mull and on the Keuper of the Midlands has long been known. 

 Later he turned his scientific knowledge and capacity to the further- 

 ance of the development of mineral resources, but did not allow the 

 ■claims of industry to damp his devotion to pui'e geology. More than 

 one publication has shown his especial interest in the problems con- 

 nected with arid conditions of climate, culminating in the important 

 and instructive contribution to the geology of South America 

 recently presented to the Society. Xot only for these services, 

 rendered to Geology, has the Council aw^arded this recognition, but 

 also for the example which he has held out to others, that devotion 

 to the industrial applications of our science is not incompatible 

 ■with the advancement of pm-e geology. 



