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Mr. Laejj, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I am deeply sensible of the honour which the Council have done 

 me in making this Award ; for to a labourer in the cause of science 

 there is no truer pleasure than the appreciation of his labours by his 

 fellow-workers. It is an additional gratification that it should fall 

 to my lot to receive the Award at your hands, since of late I have 

 attempted to follow in your footsteps in the field which you have 

 made so peculiarly your own. 



I feel, however, that the Award is a recognition far beyond what 

 my work has hitherto deserved ; and I look upon it rather as an 

 encouragement to persevere in the researches which I have begun. 



Award oe the Ltell Medal. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Arthur Smith Woodward, 

 Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., the President said : — 



Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward, — 



The Council of the Geological Society have awarded you the 

 Lyell Medal, because it appeared to them that the Palseontological 

 work to which you have so earnestly devoted your life since you 

 commenced your career in the British Museum in 1882 would have 

 met with the cordial approval of the distinguished geologist and 

 writer who founded this Award. 



Trained at the Owens College, Manchester, you had, besides this, 

 an innate love of scientific work, and only needed the opportunity 

 to develop into an accomplished palaeontologist of the Yertebrata. 



In dealing with the whole field of Fossil Yertebrata, you wavered 

 at first between the varied groups to which your studies invited you ; 

 but, after a few papers on Mammalia and Reptilia, you turned with 

 a steady resolve to the study of Fossil Fishes, from which you have 

 scarcely ever departed. More than one hundred papers on Fossil 

 Fishes, besides a descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of Fossil Fishes 

 in the British Museum, of which three volumes have already appeared 

 (1889-95), and two Memoirs on the Fossil Fishes of New South 

 Wales, attest the settled life-line of research to which you now 

 stand committed. 



