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of the whole of our planet, and during this endeavour not a day 

 has passed without bringing again and again before my eyes the 

 vastness of the British Empire, the world-wide activity of British 

 geologists and travellers, and the enormous amount of geological 

 work and learning recorded in the English language. 



' I often and gladly remember the kindness and the instruction 

 which during the course of my life I have received from my English 

 masters, and above all from my repeated intercourse with Sir 

 -Charles Lyell, but I dared not think that my own modest essays 

 would ever be deemed worthy of this distinction — the highest that 

 English geologists can bestow. 



1 This, however, now comes to me at an age when the natural 

 •diminution of physical strength confines me to valley and home ; 

 hammer and belt rest on their peg, and dreams and remembrances 

 alone still carry me along those Alpine wanderings which form the 

 highest charm of our incomparable science, and in the lonely 

 grandeur of which Man feels himself more than ever a child of 

 surrounding Mature. 



' In these hours of enforced inactivity, the Award of your Society 

 leads me to hope that my past exertions have not been quite in 

 vain ; and with deepest thanks I receive this Medal as a token of 

 indulgence, of encouragement, and also of consolation/ 



AWARD OF THE WoLL ASTON DONATION ElJND. 



The President then presented to Alfred Harker, Esq., M.A., 

 F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of Scotland, and of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Eund, addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Harker, — 



The Council request your acceptance of the Wollaston Fund in 

 recognition of your admirable work in Petrology and your studies in 

 the Metamorphic and Igneous Eocks and in Dynamometamorphism, 

 to which you have given such careful attention since you joined our 

 ranks as a Eellow in 1884. 



I have only to allude to your papers^before this Society on the 

 Gabbro of Carrock Fell and its Granophyres ; your penological 

 notes on rocks from the Cross-Fell Inlier; your paper on the 



