36 PEOCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Dr. WOODWAED, 



I have nmch pleasure in placing in your hands, as representing 

 Mr. Mackintosh, the balance of the Lyell Donation Fund awarded to 

 him by the Council of the Geological Society. In him we have a 

 second instance of the way in which, through an untiring zeal for 

 science, the rare intervals of a hard- worked life may bear fruit so 

 largely augmenting the common stock of geological knowledge. 

 There are few problems more interesting than that of the physical 

 condition of our native land during the period commonly desig- 

 nated the Glacial Epoch ; but for its solution an exact know- 

 ledge of the distribution of erratics and an identification of 

 their points of departure is absolutely necessary. Those who, 

 like myself, have attempted to adjust the rival claims of glacier 

 and floe, of the ice-chariot versus the ice-ship, as vehicles of 

 boulder-transport, can hardly speak too highly of the value of the 

 papers on British erratics which he has contributed to our Journal 

 and to other publications. I trust that this award may not only be 

 gratifying to him as a mark of our ajDpreciation, but also help him in 

 continuing his labours in a field where, notwithstanding them, 

 much still remains to be done. 



Dr. WooDWAED, in reply, said : — 



Mr. Peesident, — • 



The intelligence of the decision of the Council has had a most 

 cheering effect on Mr. Mackintosh, and will brighten the remaining 

 years he may have left to him. It is well known to Fellows of this 

 Society what has been the nature of Mr. Mackintosh's work, and 

 what good and careful observations he has made, extending over 

 long years of wandering up and down through England and Wales, 

 and carefully observing wherever he went. I cannot do better than 

 read the following letter from Mr. Mackintosh, which, indeed, is 

 addressed to yourself. He says : — " In thanking you for the honour 

 conferred upon me by the Award of the Lyell Donation Fund, I 

 may mention the fact that 25 years ago I was elected a Fellow of 

 this Society, and that Sir Charles Lyell was one of those who signed 

 my certificate. I am now seventy years of age ; this is the second 

 occasion that my work has been so much honoured, for I am proud 

 to be able to state that I was presented with the Kingsley Medal of 

 the Chester Society of Natural Science in 1881." 



AWAED OE THE BaELOW-JaMESOX FunD. 



The Peesident then handed the Award from the Barlow-Jame- 

 son Fund to Dr. W. T. Blanfoed, F.R.S., for transmission to Dr. H. 

 J. Johkston-Lavis, F.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — 



