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to fulfil their duties to the public service with no small amount of 

 enthusiasm in carrying on scientific investigatio]i. In view of my 

 pending retirement from this department of the public service, I am 

 somewhat consoled by the hope that, in consequence, I may be 

 enabled, at no distant day, to take a more active part in the work 

 of this great Society than has hitherto been possible. In conclusion, 

 I have only to express my thanks to you, Mr. President, for the 

 kind words in which you have communicated to me the award of 

 the Council ; these will be an incentive to further effort in the cause 

 of geological investigation. 



Award oe the Lyell Medal. 



The President then presented the Lyell Medal to Prof. T. Etj1»eet 

 Jones, P.E.S., and addressed him as follows :• — 



Professor Rupebt Jones, — 



There is unusual pleasure in presenting one of the chief awards 

 in the gift of the Council to a geologist who has been so long and 

 so honourably associated with the Geological Society as yourself, 

 and the appropriateness of the award is not decreased by the cir-* 

 cumstance that your official connexion with the Society commenced 

 when the great geologist who founded this medal was President. 

 Since that time, now forty years ago, you have written much on 

 various fossil organisms, but especially on Entomostraca and Eora- 

 minifera, and in many cases, and especially amongst the bivalve 

 crustaceans of the older rocks, it is largely to your researches that 

 we are indebted for our present knowledge of the forms. You have 

 also devoted much time and attention to the geology of South 

 Africa, and to bringing together the scattered information that we 

 possess concerning the geology of that interesting region. 



In placing the Lyell Medal in your hands I can only add that I 

 think the Council have carried out the intentions of Sir Charles 

 Lyell, and that they are justified in believing that, in his words, 

 " the Medallist has deserved well of the Science." 



Prof. T. Eupeet Jones, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 

 Acknowledging, with respectful thanks, the unexpected honour 

 with which the Council, on the part of the Society, has favoured 

 me, I beg to state that, in following the study of those branches of 



