36 PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The President then handed the second moiety of the balance of 

 the-Lyell Geological Fund to Prof. Seeley, F.E.S., F.G.S., for trans- 

 mission to M. E. Eigaux, of Boulogne, and said : — 



Professor Seeley, — 



In conferring upon M. Eigaux a portion of the balance of the 

 proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund, the Council of the Geological 

 Society desires to signify its estimation of the value it places on his 

 researches in the Jurassic formations of the Boulonnais and their 

 contained fossils. In asking you to transmit to him this cheque, I 

 would desire you to convey to him with it our hopes that he may 

 continue those lines of inquiry in prosecuting which he has attained 

 so great success. 



Professor Seeley in reply said : — 

 Mr. President,— 



I feel that M. Eigaux deserves recognition for excellent strati- 

 graphical work on the Primary and Secondary rocks of the country 

 round Boulogne, and for careful descriptions of their fossils. But 

 he is one of those modest men whose published writings represent 

 but a small fraction of his knowledge, and who is far readier to 

 deposit his collections in the public museum and to impart know- 

 ledge to scientific friends than to print his work. There can be but- 

 few geologists of our time who have visited the Boulogne country 

 without being under obligations to M. Eigaux ; and although, in 

 a letter received from him, he speaks of this honour as being un- 

 deserved and unexpected, it is one for which he offers you his 

 sincere thanks, and which will stimulate him to carry on those 

 researches which have secured our esteem. 



Award of the Bigsby Gold Medal. 



The President finally presented the Bigsby Gold Medal to Dr. 

 Henry Hicks, F.G.S., and addressed him in the following words : — 



Dr. Hicks, — 



The Council, in conferring on you the Bigsby Medal as a mark 

 of their appreciation of your labours amongst the oldest fossilif erous 

 and the Archaean rocks of Great Britain and Ireland, feels, in your 

 community of interests, a peculiar fitness in associating you with the 

 memory of the founder of this distinction. Your numerous com- 

 munications, beginning with one " On the genus Anopolenus" 

 written in 1865, and culminating in that which you read at our 

 last meeting, show to what good purpose you have employed the 



