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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  Award 
  oe 
  the 
  Wollaston 
  Medal. 
  

  

  In 
  presenting 
  the 
  Wollaston 
  Gold 
  Medal 
  to 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Batjerman, 
  

   F.G.S., 
  for 
  transmission 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Franz 
  Bitter 
  von 
  Hatter, 
  F.M.G.S., 
  

   Director 
  of 
  the 
  Austrian 
  Geological 
  Survey, 
  the 
  President 
  addressed 
  

   him 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bauerman, 
  — 
  

  

  In 
  handing 
  to 
  you 
  the 
  Wollaston 
  Medal 
  for 
  transmission 
  to 
  Franz 
  

   von 
  Haner, 
  I 
  trust 
  you 
  will 
  inform 
  him 
  that 
  the 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  

   Geological 
  Society 
  award 
  this, 
  their 
  highest 
  prize, 
  in 
  recognition 
  

   of 
  his 
  valuable 
  labours 
  in 
  connexion 
  with 
  the 
  Geology 
  of 
  Austro- 
  

   Hungary, 
  and 
  especially 
  for 
  his 
  long- 
  continued 
  services 
  in 
  the 
  inves- 
  

   tigation 
  of 
  extensive 
  areas, 
  and 
  his 
  numerous 
  descriptive 
  memoirs 
  

   produced 
  during 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Map 
  of 
  the 
  Austrian 
  

   Empire. 
  Yon 
  Hauer 
  has 
  contributed 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  100 
  papers 
  and 
  

   memoirs 
  to 
  geological 
  literature, 
  25 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  on 
  palasontological 
  

   subjects 
  ; 
  he 
  has 
  paid 
  particular 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  fauna 
  of 
  the 
  Hall- 
  

   stadt 
  and 
  Baibl 
  beds, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  Cephalopoda 
  of 
  the 
  Eastern, 
  or 
  

   Austrian 
  Alps. 
  His 
  descriptive 
  pamphlets 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  General 
  

   Map 
  of 
  Austria 
  are 
  models 
  of 
  concise 
  description 
  as 
  summarizing 
  

   the 
  results 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  These 
  

   results 
  have 
  also 
  formed 
  the 
  basis 
  of 
  a 
  general 
  manual 
  of 
  Austrian 
  

   Geology, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  best 
  guide 
  we 
  have 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   interesting 
  parts 
  of 
  Central 
  and 
  Eastern 
  Europe. 
  Von 
  Hauer 
  has 
  

   been 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  Austrian 
  Survey 
  ever 
  since 
  its 
  commence- 
  

   ment 
  in 
  1849 
  ; 
  he 
  succeeded 
  Haidinger 
  as 
  Director 
  in 
  1866. 
  His 
  

   great 
  work 
  is 
  ' 
  Die 
  Geologie 
  und 
  ihre 
  Anwendung 
  auf 
  die 
  Kennt- 
  

   niss 
  der 
  BodenbeschafTenheit 
  der 
  Osterr.-ungar. 
  Monarchic,' 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  1875. 
  I 
  have 
  said 
  enough, 
  Sir, 
  to 
  enable 
  you 
  to 
  inform 
  

   Dr. 
  Franz 
  Bitter 
  von 
  Hauer 
  of 
  the 
  high 
  appreciation 
  the 
  Council 
  

   have 
  of 
  his 
  merits, 
  and 
  the 
  satisfaction 
  they 
  have 
  in 
  recognizing 
  

   them 
  by 
  awarding 
  to 
  him 
  the 
  Wollaston 
  Medal. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Batjerman, 
  in 
  reply, 
  said 
  that 
  he 
  regretted 
  that 
  the 
  compul- 
  

   sory 
  absence 
  of 
  the 
  Foreign 
  Secretary, 
  Mr. 
  Warington 
  W. 
  Smyth, 
  pre- 
  

   vented 
  his 
  receiving 
  this 
  Medal 
  from 
  the 
  hands 
  of 
  the 
  President. 
  He 
  

   had 
  much 
  pleasure, 
  however, 
  in 
  undertaking 
  the 
  office 
  of 
  transmitting 
  

   to 
  Dr. 
  Franz 
  von 
  Hauer 
  this 
  testimony 
  of 
  the 
  appreciation 
  of 
  his 
  

   valuable 
  labours 
  on 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society. 
  He 
  called 
  

   attention 
  especially 
  to 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  Map 
  of 
  Austria, 
  the 
  

   sheets 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  on 
  the 
  table, 
  and 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  produced 
  by 
  

   the 
  labours 
  of 
  the 
  Survey 
  under 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  Franz 
  von 
  Hauer. 
  

   Notwithstanding 
  the 
  difficulty 
  of 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  represented 
  

   and 
  the 
  small 
  scale 
  of 
  the 
  map, 
  the 
  details 
  were 
  admirably 
  worked 
  

   out, 
  and 
  the 
  Map 
  itself 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  beautiful 
  ever 
  produced. 
  

  

  