38 PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL BOCIETT. 



AWAED OF THE WoLLASTON MeDAL. 



In presenting the Wollaston Medal to Prof. J. W. Judd, F.E.S., 

 the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Judd, — 



The Council have awarded to you the "Wollaston Medal in recog- 

 nition of the important services rendered by you to Geological 

 science, especially in the department of Petrography. In recalling 

 for a moment the value and extent of these services, I am reminded 

 that, after showing your powers by an excellent paper on the strata 

 of the Lincolnshire Wolds, you began your geological career in the 

 Geological Survey under Murchison, and that you had thus a 

 favourable opportunity of acquiring that practical acquaintance 

 with the details of geological structure which can in no way be so 

 thoroughly mastered as by actual patient mapping. Your volume on 

 the " Geology of Hutland " proved how' well you had profited by the 

 advantages which your official duties afforded you. Prom the 

 Jurassic rocks of England, which you had studied in minute detail, 

 you were led to undertake the investigation of those of Scotland, 

 which you succeeded in reducing to order, bringing them into closer 

 relationship with their equivalents in the southern part of the 

 United Kingdom. 



It was in the course of those northern expeditions that you were 

 drawn from the field of stratigraphy into the study of volcanic rocks, 

 to which you have since devoted so large a part of your time and 

 thought, and in the study of which you have journeyed far and 

 wide in this country, and have extended your travels to the islands 

 of the Mediterranean. The problems presented by these rocks in 

 the field led you to seek the aid of the microscope, and to enter upon 

 a course of distinguished petrographical research. I trust that the 

 award of this Medal will be received by you as a mark of the 

 estimation in which your work is held by the Society in whose 

 Quarterly Journal most of it has been published. 



Prof. JuDD, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



It is a source of legitimate gratification to the student of science 

 when a favourable judgment on his efi'orts is pronounced by his 

 contemporaries and fellow-workers. In receiving this highly-prized 



