ANNIVEESAEY MEETING LTELL FUND. 35 



AWAED OP THE LTELL GEOLOGICAL FtHSTD. 



In presenting one moiety of the balance of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund to Mr. P. Heebeet Caepentee, M.A., the Peestdent addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. P. Heebeet Caepentee, — 



The Council of the Geological Society, in awarding to you a por- 

 tion of the balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund, desires 

 to express its sense of the great value of your researches into the 

 structure and relationship of several families of fossil Echinoder- 

 mata. Your papers " On some little-known Jurassic Crinoids," 

 " On the Cretaceous Comatulag," " On the Crinoids from the Upper 

 Chalk," and that read last session, " On Hybocrinus, Baerocrinus, 

 and Hybocystites," are models of clearness and an excellent earnest 

 of future work. The Council hopes that this award may aid you 

 in continuing those lines of research in which you have already 

 achieved such signal success. 



Mr. Caepentee, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. Peesident, — 



It was with very great gratification that I heard from my valued 

 friend and former teacher, Prof. Bonney, of the honour done me by 

 the Council of the Geological Society in awarding me a portion of 

 the Lyell Fund ; and I am greatly indebted to you, Sir, for the kind 

 way in which you have referred to my paheontological work. It 

 has been done as a kind of recreation from the duties of a busy 

 schoolmaster's life, and from the highly interesting but lengthy 

 business of preparing the Reports on the ' Challenger ' Crinoids. 

 But I have always found that the few days which I have devoted 

 to fossils during my holidays have sent me back to schoolwork and 

 to recent Crinoids with renewed vigour, and often with fresh ideas. 

 I have the strongest conviction (and many mistakes would be 

 avoided were it a universal one) that the only way to understand 

 fossils properly is to gain a thorough knowledge of the morphology 

 of their living representatives. These, on the other hand, seem to 

 me incompletely known if no account is taken of the life-forms which 

 have preceded them. I have thus been led to carry on the two 

 lines of work simultaneously ; and I am happy to think that in the 

 opinion of those best qualified to judge, I have been able to throw 

 some light upon the study of the fossil Pelmatozoa. 



In two respects I have been more than usually fortunate. My 

 artist friends thoroughly understand their work ; and the Council of 

 the Society have always treated me with the utmost liberality in the 

 very important matter of illustrations. For this and for many 

 other acts of individual kindness on the part of the Fellows I gladly 

 take this opportunity of expressing my warmest thanks to the 

 Society. 



