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and their allies, much still remains to be discovered. By so doing, 

 I hope to fulfil in some measure the object which the illustrious 

 geologist had in view when he instituted this fund. 



" I remain, dear Sir, 



Yours faithfully, 



John Young." 



I may state in conclusion, that, in addition to the assistance 

 rendered to other palaeontologists to which Mr. Young so modestly 

 alludes, he has within the period of the last twenty years published 

 nearly 50 papers, the results of his researches during that time. 



A WARD OF THE LTELL MEDAL. 



The President next presented the Lyell Medal to Dr. W. B. 

 Caepentee, C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S., and addressed him in the follow- 

 ing words : — 



Dr. Caepentee, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded to you the 

 Lyell Medal with (in compliance with the terms of the bequest) a 

 portion of the proceeds of the Lyell Fund, in recognition of the 

 great value of your investigations into the minute structure of in- 

 vertebrate fossils and of your deep-sea researches. Your contribu- 

 tions " On the Structure and Affinities of the Eozoon canadense," 

 " On the Microscopic Structure of ISummulina, Orbitolites, and 

 Orbitoides," published in our Journal, your numerous papers on the 

 intimate structure of shells, communicated to the Royal Society, 

 and others published in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History,' j'our long-continued work on Foraminifera, your com- 

 munications on Oceanic Circulation and on Abyssal Life-forms, all 

 testify to a life-long devotion to branches of natural knowledge 

 bearing on that department of science the cultivation of which is 

 the raison d'etre of this Society. 



I count it a pleasure, Dr. Carpenter, that it has devolved upon 

 me to hand you this Medal. 



Dr. Caepentee, in reply, said : — 

 Mr, Peesident, — 



It is with no ordinary gratification that I receive from your hands 

 the Medal of which the Council of the Geological Society has been 

 pleased to think me deserving. For as the work of my life has been 

 done almost entirely in the domain of biology, it has but in- 

 cidentally brought me within the wide area covered by geological 

 science. Although familiar from very early years with its great 



