xliv PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I906, 



Your work is also recorded on the maps of those areas 

 which yon have surveyed. To produce those maps required, in 

 addition to the ordinary accomplishments of a geological surveyor, 

 petrographical and other knowledge of a very special kind, and 

 they form a fitting monument to your skill. Their remarkable 

 execution was recognized by the selection of certain of those of 

 K,oss-shire for exhibition at the St. Louis Exhibition, as examples 

 of the maps on the 6-inch scale which are produced by the 

 Geological Surveyors of this country. 



Once again the Murchison Medal is awarded to a member of that 

 Survey of which the Founder was for so long Chief. It is a source 

 of gratification to me that, in the two years of my office as President, 

 medals have been awarded to two old members of my own College, 

 pupils of my College-tutor, Dr. Bonney. 



Mr. Clough replied as follows : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I thank the Council of the Geological Society very much for the 

 honour that they have conferred upon me, and you, Sir, for the very 

 kind words in which you have spoken of my work. I am conscious 

 that this presentation is a matter not purely personal to myself — that 

 it is another recognition by this Society of the value of the detailed 

 co-operative work carried on by the Geological Survey — and it is 

 to me a great additional pleasure to be thus tacitly associated in 

 your minds with colleagues and friends with whom I have spent 

 so many happy years. I have now been on the staff of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey for more than 30 years, and I have seen that we 

 sometimes get on the wrong track — that we have our ' downs ' as 

 well as our ' ups ' — but we feel that, through all vicissitudes, a 

 foundation of honest work is always appreciated by our brethren of 

 the hammer. 



It is a pleasure also to acknowledge, on this occasion, my personal 

 indebtedness to my old friends and teachers of Cambridge days, 

 and particularly to Prof. Bonney and Prof. Hughes. I feel indeed 

 that I owe to others more than I can tell. 



