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He writes as follows : — 



'' Would you kindly transmit to the President and Council of the 

 Geological ^Society my grateful acknowledgments of the honour 

 conferred upon me, which I value so much the more as coming from 

 a scientific body of my own country, to which, owing to the fact 

 that my family resides abroad, I have become nearly a stranger. 



*' If I rightly understand the intention of the Council, this Award 

 is given less as a mark of their approval of what I have already done 

 than as an incentive to future labours. 



" In my palaeoufcological work I have striven to follow the example 

 of one of the masters of our science, the late Dr. Hugh Falconer, 

 devoting myself more to the collecting of facts and observations than 

 to their speedy publication. This reserve seems to be imposed upon 

 us even more in our day than in that of Dr. Falconer's." 



In presenting the other half of the Balance of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund to G. W. Lamplugh, Esq., F.G.S., the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Lamphigh, — 



The Council, in awarding to you one half of the proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund, desires to assure you of the estimation in 

 which it holds your work, and of the pleasure it will derive from 

 their further prosecution. Your researches among the Glacial 

 deposits of Yorkshire have been followed with much interest, and 

 we have rejoiced in the enthusiasm which not only carried 3'ou 

 through these labours at home, but which impelled you to seek the 

 solution cf some of your difficulties by journeying to the far-distant 

 shores of British Columbia. Your investigation of the Speeton 

 Clay affords a striking example of how our knowledge may be cor- 

 rected and extended by the patient labours of an observer resident 

 on the spot which he has to examine. I hope you will accept this 

 Award with the best wishes of the Council and of the Society. 



Mr. Lamplugh, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



That I should have been selected by the Council to receive this 

 Award affords me the greatest encouragement, since it comes to me 

 as a token that my geological work, in spite of its narrow and local 

 character, has after all a certain value. 



It is scarcely possible that anyone who has any sympathy what- 



