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" That my labours in the field of geology should have been thought 

 worthy of such recognition is most gratifying and encouragitig, and 

 I am especially pleased that the award should come from the Lyell 

 Donation Fund ; for among all the departed masters of our science 

 there is no one for whom I feel greater respect than for Sir Charles 

 Lyell, or whose mental attitude I more desire to imitate. To be 

 entered therefore on the roll of those who are deemed worthy of 

 receiving the award instituted by Sir Charles Lyell will always be a 

 source of extreme pleasure. 



'^ I need hardly assure the Council and Fellows of the Society 

 that such strength and powers as I possess will be spent in the 

 service of geological science, because that must be so as long as I am 

 connected with the Geological Survey ; but this mark of their appro- 

 bation will stimulate me in the performance of such extra-official 

 work as I am able to accomplish, and I only wish that my health 

 would allow me to do more." 



AWAED OF THE BiGSBY GoLD MeBAI,. 



In presenting the Bigsby Gold Medal to Professor Eenaed, of 

 Brussels, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Eenaed, — 



When to a familiarity with geology in the field and a love of 

 nature are united the skill of a finished chemist and the experience 

 of a practised worker with the microscope, the results cannot fail to 

 be of the utmost importance to our science. These qualifications, 

 rarely united in any one man, are in yourself combined with an 

 untiring industry and a love of science for its own sake. Thus we 

 are indebted to you for many important contributions to our know- 

 ledge in geology. Tour early memoir " Surles Eoches Plutoniennes 

 de la Belgique et de I'Ardenne Francaise," written in conjunction 

 with M. de la Yallee Poussin, will long be classic ; your papers on 

 various subjects connected with the Carboniferous Limestone, on the 

 coticule, the i^hyllites, and other altered rocks of Belgium, and on 

 the deep-sea deposits are too well known to need more than men- 

 tion, and in recognition of these the Council has awarded you the 

 Bigsby Medal. 



In placing it in your hands may I be allowed to express for 

 myself and others the hope that it will be always a pleasant souvenir 

 of your many friends on this side of the Channel, some of whom, 

 myself included, will not soon forget the pleasant and, to us, most 

 profitable days spent under your guidance in geological studies by 

 the limestone cliff's of the winding Mouse and the wooded crags of 

 the Ardennes. 



