xlviii PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 896, 



have considered the vastness of our subject, and the smallness of 

 the contributions which I have endeavoured to add to our know- 

 ledge of the past ; it is therefore a great encouragement to 

 receive this mark of approval from those whose opinion we most 

 value and esteem. It would, indeed, have been strange if, with 

 the resources of the Royal College of Science at my disposal, I 

 had not availed myself to the utmost of such exceptional oppor- 

 tunities. 



Two facts afford me special gratification on the present occasion : 

 the first, that this Award should be intimately connected with the 

 great geologist whose historical and geographical methods I have 

 been most anxious to follow to the best of my ability ; the second, 

 to receive it from you, seeing that you were the editor who piloted 

 with friendly hand my first publication, at a time when it was 

 especially in your power to damp or re-inspire the ardour of a young 

 enthusiast. Therefore, to you, Sir, to the Council, and to the kind 

 friends who have aided me by active counsel or friendly criticism, I 

 hereby tender my most warm and hearty thanks. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance 

 of the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund to Charles W. 

 Andrews, Esq., B.A.,B.Sc, F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural 

 History), and addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Andrews, — 



Although your scientific career has been but a short one, you 

 have lost no time in engaging in active and earnest studies in the 

 Comparative Osteology of the Eossil and Living Yertebrata, and 

 have already done some excellent work on the remains of the extinct 

 gigantic Birds from Madagascar and from other parts of the world. 

 Your papers on Keraterpeton from the Coal Measures, and on the 

 Oxfordian genera of Plesiosauria, prove that you have already 

 acquired an accurate knowledge of many points of detail in the 

 structure of these extinct Reptiles which can only be appreciated by 

 an equally careful study of existing forms. 



In making this Award, the Council desire not only to assist and 

 encourage you in the work which you have taken in hand with so 

 much enthusiasm, but they have a confident expectation that you 

 will ere long contribute papers to their Proceedings, which shall do 

 honour to their prescience and bring kvIos to yourself. 



