PROCEEDINGS 



AT THE 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 21sT FEBRUAEY, 1868. 



Award op the Wollaston Medal. 



The Eeports of the Council and of the Committees having* been read, 

 the President, Warington- W. Smyth, Esq., M.A., E.E.S., handed 

 the WoUaston Medal to Professor D. T. Ansted; M.A., E.R.S., 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Professor Ansted, — I consider it no common privilege to hand to 

 yon for presentation the WoUaston Medal, which has been awarded 

 by the Council to Carl Friedrich Naumann, of Leipzig. If it were 

 needed to set before the Society the important services which have 

 been rendered to our Science by that distinguished geologist, I 

 should point to the list of his published works, and to the great 

 geological map of Saxony, carried out in great part by his own 

 held- surveys, although aided in portions by the cooperation of Pro- 

 fessor Cotta and others. 



Naumann's early labours date back half a century ago ; and his 

 excellent ' Travels in Norway ' and the sketch of a treatise on rocks 

 (Andeutungen zu einer Gesteinslehre) were published in 1824. From 

 that time forth he has been an active worker in the lecture-room, 

 the mineralogical cabinet, and in the field. His ' Elements of Crys- 

 tallograph}^,' published in 1826, and his larger work on the same 

 subject, 1830, are, to say the least of them, on a par with the best 

 efforts of the best men ; and these were followed up by his manuals 

 of Mineralogy, the excellent qualities of which are sufficiently proved 

 by their general diffusion through the student- world of Germany, 

 and by their translation into other languages. 



His great treatise on Geology (Lehrbuch der Geognosie), of which a 

 new edition has just been completed, is probably the most masterly 

 comprehensive summary of the facts and opinions of our science 

 which has appeared in any country. 



His numerous contributions to periodical scientific literatui'e can 

 only be generally referred to ; but I should fail in expressing the 

 great merits of Professor Naumann, were I not to refer to the 

 admirable manner in which for many years he filled the chair of the 

 great Werner, at Freiberg, in Saxony. A quarter of a century has 

 passed since I enjoyed the advantage of hearing his fluent delivery of 

 the encyclopaedic knowledge of geological phenomena which he had 

 amassed; but, both from the lucid method of his lectures and from 



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