38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



geological science to which opportunit}* and other circumstances 

 have led me to give my best attention, I cannot claim to have been 

 so successful, or so useful, or deserving of such honourable recogni- 

 tion as the Council, in their kindness towards an old worker, seem 

 to have considered me to be. 



Thanks to a natural disposition to studj^ both living and fossil 

 organism's, and to look with confidence for signs of the great Divine 

 laws governing the earth and all its belongings, my humble part 

 has been, as far as possible, that of a true " Minister et Interpres 

 I^aturse." 



No great discovery, however, nor signal success in elucidating the 

 problems offered for our study, in the organic and the inorganic 

 world, has been attained by me. Persistent and, may be, an in- 

 dustrious search among geological facts for their causes and history, 

 and among fossils, especially microzoa, for evidence of their exact 

 relationships, to the end that our knowledge of these things should 

 be more perfect and more useful, has occupied much of my intel- 

 lectual life. 



How far the Foraminifera, Ostracoda, and Phyllopoda have been 

 already, or will in the future be useful palseontological guides to 

 the geologist cannot be noticed here. 



In all that I have done my work has been my pleasure, and I 

 can claim no reward for it ; and in all that has been good I have 

 to acknowledge warmly the co-operative help given by W. K. Parker, 

 J. W. Kirkby, H. P. and G. S. Brady, Henry Woodward, and C. D. 

 Sherborn ; and in just now completing the Supplemental Mono- 

 graph of the Cretaceous Entomostraca I have had the kind aid of 

 G. J. Hinde. 



This Medal, Sir, bequeathed by my old and revered friend Sir 

 Charles Lyell, and the other Awards given so graciously this day by 

 the Council and yourself, on behalf of the Geological Society, bear 

 striking and pleasant testimony to the fact that the good deeds of 

 great and good men live after them. 



AWAKD OF THE WoLLASTON DONATION PuND. 



The President next presented the Palance of the WoUaston Fund 

 to Mr. \V. A. E. UssuER, P.G.S., and said : — 



Mr. XJssHER, — 

 In connexion with the Geological Survey of the counties of 



