AlOrrVEKSART MEETII^G LTELL MEDAL. 33 



Mr. Woodward, in reply, said : — 



Mr. Peesident, — 



I am highly honoured by this award of the Council which you 

 have now placed in my hands. A little more than twenty-one years 

 ago I commenced geological life in the service of this Society, as 

 Assistant in the Library and Museum at Somerset House ; and I 

 feel much indebted to that period for acquaintance with many 

 geologists, who, for the sake of my father, extended the hand of 

 friendship to me ; and I am likewise indebted to the duties I had 

 then to perform for a knowledge (and I may say a love) of books, 

 which perhaps influenced the production of that volume about which 

 you have spoken so kindly. 



While labour is in most cases its own reward, it is a great satis- 

 faction and a great encouragement to be told that one's work is 

 useful by those who are best qualified to judge. 



AWAED OF THE LtELL MeDAL. 



The Peesident next presented the Lyell Medal to Professor H. G. 

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



Professor Seeley, — 

 The Council has awarded to you the Lyell Medal and a grant of 

 ,£40 in recognition of your investigations into the anatomy and 

 classification of the Fossil Eeptilia, especially the Dinosauria. Not 

 that you have limited yourself to this field of research ; your 

 papers on Emys and PsejjhopJiorus, on Megalornis and British Possil 

 Cretaceous Birds, on Zeuglodon, and on remains of Mammalia from 

 Stonesfield, prove your extensive knowledge of vertebrate palaeon- 

 tology, as your proficiency in invertebrate is evidenced by your 

 earlier work, both stratigraphical and directly palseontological. 

 Furthermore, your excellent edition of the first volume of Phillips's 

 'Manual of Geology' indicates an exceptional familiarity with the 

 literature of our science. Since our acquaintance first began, some 

 twenty years since, at Cambridge, we have both had our disappoint- 

 ments and our successes ; you, undiscouraged by the one, undated 

 by the other, have pushed on to your present high position in 

 science, making no enemies, winning many friends. I trust that 

 your future career may be even more prosperous than your past, 

 and that this Medal may be an augury of many good gifts of fortune. 

 You will, I know, believe me when I say that I feel an exceptional 

 pleasure in being commissioned to place in your hands this Medal, 

 commemorative of the great geologist whose philosophic spirit you 

 so well appreciate, and whose memory, I know, you so greatly 

 revere. 



