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  proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  geological 
  society. 
  

  

  Award 
  op 
  the 
  Lyell 
  Medal. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  then 
  presented 
  the 
  Lyell 
  Medal 
  to 
  Prof. 
  W. 
  Boyd 
  

   Dawkins, 
  F.R.S., 
  F.G.S., 
  and 
  addressed 
  him 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Professor 
  Boyd 
  Dawkins, 
  — 
  

  

  In 
  awarding 
  to 
  you 
  the 
  Lyell 
  Medal 
  for 
  the 
  present 
  year, 
  the 
  

   Council 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Society 
  wishes 
  to 
  mark 
  its 
  recognition 
  of 
  

   the 
  importance 
  of 
  your 
  palgeontological 
  researches, 
  and 
  especially 
  of 
  

   the 
  additions 
  made 
  by 
  you 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Mammalia 
  found 
  

   in 
  the 
  later 
  Tertiary 
  and 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  Pleistocene 
  deposits 
  of 
  

   this 
  country. 
  Your 
  researches 
  have 
  extended 
  over 
  a 
  considerable 
  

   number 
  of 
  years, 
  and 
  amongst 
  the 
  earliest 
  of 
  the 
  papers 
  published 
  

   by 
  you 
  were 
  those 
  on 
  British 
  fossil 
  oxen 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  dentition 
  of 
  

   certain 
  extinct 
  species 
  of 
  Rhinoceros, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  

   Society's 
  Quarterly 
  Journal. 
  Your 
  attention 
  has 
  especially 
  been 
  

   directed 
  to 
  primaeval 
  man, 
  his 
  implements, 
  and 
  the 
  mammals 
  that 
  

   were 
  his 
  contemporaries, 
  and 
  in 
  your 
  works 
  on 
  ' 
  Cave 
  Hunting 
  ' 
  

   and 
  * 
  Early 
  Man 
  in 
  Britain 
  ' 
  you 
  have 
  done 
  much 
  to 
  disseminate 
  a 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  scientific 
  discoveries 
  amongst 
  readers 
  whom 
  more 
  

   technical 
  works 
  would 
  have 
  repelled. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Boyd 
  Dawkins, 
  in 
  reply, 
  said 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Mr. 
  President, 
  — 
  

  

  I 
  thank 
  you, 
  from 
  my 
  heart, 
  for 
  the 
  kind 
  words 
  which 
  you 
  have 
  

   spoken 
  in 
  awarding 
  to 
  me 
  the 
  honour 
  of 
  the 
  Lyell 
  Medal. 
  I 
  feel, 
  

   Sir, 
  on 
  looking 
  back 
  on 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  25 
  years 
  how 
  little 
  I 
  

   have 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  do 
  compared 
  with 
  what 
  I 
  proposed 
  to 
  do, 
  and 
  I 
  

   console 
  myself 
  with 
  the 
  knowledge 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  common 
  ex- 
  

   perience 
  of 
  all 
  workers 
  in 
  all 
  subjects. 
  My 
  main 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  

   that 
  field 
  of 
  Geological 
  inquiry 
  which 
  looks 
  towards 
  history, 
  in 
  which 
  

   Sir 
  Charless 
  Lyell, 
  the 
  founder 
  of 
  the 
  Medal, 
  rejoiced 
  to 
  labour, 
  and 
  

   its 
  results 
  have 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  this 
  

   Society. 
  I 
  feel 
  therefore 
  peculiar 
  gratification 
  in 
  receiving 
  in 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  this 
  Society 
  this 
  medal 
  for 
  work 
  done 
  in 
  Sir 
  Charles 
  Ly 
  ell's 
  favourite 
  

   field. 
  If 
  I 
  may 
  speak 
  of 
  the 
  future, 
  I 
  would 
  say 
  that 
  I 
  shall 
  work 
  

   all 
  the 
  harder 
  through 
  this 
  mark 
  of 
  approbation 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  and 
  

   that 
  I 
  hope 
  to 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  do 
  a 
  little, 
  in 
  the 
  time 
  that 
  is 
  left 
  to 
  me, 
  

   to 
  fill 
  up 
  the 
  blank 
  which 
  lies 
  between 
  our 
  science 
  and 
  history. 
  

  

  