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likely to forget who has been so fortunate as at any time to have at- 
tended them. The fruits of your walks with Mr. Broderip formed 
the nucleus of that great collection, more especially remarkable for 
the organic remains it contains, which, after the labours of forty 
years, you have presented to the Geological Museum at Oxford, in 
grateful recollection of the aid which the endowments of that univer- 
sity, and the leisure of its vacations, had afforded you for extensive 
travelling during a residence at Oxford of nearly forty-five years. 
When you contemplate our present knowledge of the geological 
structure of the British Islands, it cannot be without gratification 
that you can look back to your early labours in promoting it. It 
was so long since as 1808 that alone you crossed the chalk-downs 
of Berkshire, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire to Corfe Castle, there recog- 
nising chalk in the vertical position of the hard white limestones on 
which the latter stands. Alone also in 1809 you explored a large 
part of South Devon ; in 1810 you examined the centre and north of 
England, colouring the results of your researches upon Cary’s great 
map of England ; and in 1811 you extended your investigations to part 
of Scotland, crossed over to Ireland, and returned home by North 
Wales. About this time we find you associated with Mr. Greenough, 
collecting materials for his geological map of England, and it must 
be no small gratification for you to see, as witnesses of this presenta- 
tion of the Wollaston Medal, your early fellow-labourer in the geology 
of England, and our first president, Mr. Greenough, and my imme- 
diate predecessor in this chair, Mr. Horner, as active and zealous 
now, when forty years have elapsed smce the foundation of this 
Society, as when, still in its infancy, it required all the fostermg care 
which they and you then afforded it. 
Let me express my personal gratification that I should be the 
official channel through which you receive this mark of the high 
value which the Geological Society attaches to your services. We 
have been fellow-labourers together in the same field, and let me 
gratefully remind you of the kind encouragement you afforded me 
in the pursuit of our common science, when a youth then residing 
at Lyme Regis, I endeavoured to avail myself of your advanced and 
superior knowledge of the remarkable fossils discovered in that neigh- 
bourhood, and of the geological structure of the surrounding country. 
Receive this medal, Dr. Buckland, as the highest distinction our So- 
ciety can award, and may its presentation to you prove a stimulus to 
the exertions of our younger geologists, some of whom, now active, 
date their birth after you had entered upon your geological career, 
and may their labours in the great cause of truth be found worthy 
of honours similar to that which in the name of this Society I now 
place in your hands. 
On receiving the Medal, Dr. Buckianp replied as follows :— 
Str Henry De 1a Becure,—I am indeed highly gratified to re- 
ceive at the hands of a fellow-labourer with whom I have been asso- 
ciated in promoting the science of Geology for so many years, this 
testimony of the approbation of the Council of the Geological Society, 
