34 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Magazine testify to the zeal and thoroiigliness with which you have 

 applied yourself to the?e and kindred questions. In conferring 

 upon you this award from the Murchison Pund, which I have great 

 pleasure in placing in your hands, the Council of the Geological 

 Society hopes that it may aid you in prosecuting your studies in this 

 department of geology and extending them to localities which could 

 not be visited by you in the discharge of your professional duties as 

 a Member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. 



Mr. Clement Eeid, in reply, said : — 



Mr. Peesident, — 



I have sometimes felt discouraged at the small results of my 

 work. But this welcome and unexpected award by the Council of 

 the Geological Society is a recognition that the work is not considered 

 altogether worthless, and will encourage me still to persevere. 

 Though a large portion of my observations have been made in the 

 course of the Geological Survey, I have also devoted my leisure time 

 to the study of various questions in Pleistocene and Pliocene natural 

 history. This award of the Murchison Pund will now enable me 

 to undertake a more thorough examination of many of the less- 

 known deposits. 



Award op the Ltell Medal. 



The President next presented the Lyell Medal to Mr. William 

 Pengellt, P.P.S., P.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Pengellt, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded you the Lyell 

 Medal and a sum of twenty guineas from the Pund in recognition 

 of your lifelong labours in the cause of geology, and more especially 

 of your investigations in those caverns of the south-west of England 

 by means of which our knowledge of the condition of Britain during 

 the latest epoch of geological history has been so largely augmented. 

 To exhume the contents of a cavern, not only the lair of wild beasts, 

 but also an abode of men in those ages when, to quote the words of 

 the old Greek tragedian, 



" Like tiny ants they dwelt in sunless caves," '^ 



requires the exercise of unwearied patience and, in addition, of 

 extensive knowledge and critical acumen. By the labours of the 

 Committee, of which )^ou were the hands and the eyes, and at least 

 a fair proportion of the compound brain, Mr. MacEnery's long- 

 neo-lected discovery in Kent's 'Hole was placed beyond all dispute, 

 ancl the contents of that cavern, its succession of deposits, its relics 



* ^schylus, Prom. Vinct. 461. 



