Xlvi PKOCEEDISTGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I906, 



Prof. Adams is successful also as a teacher, and we rejoice to 

 know that, under his care, a geological school nourishes in McGill 

 University, a university endeared to us all by its association with 

 the name of Sir William Dawson. 



We regret Prof. Adams's absence to-day. Let us hope that we 

 may welcome him and many other geologists who are advancing 

 our science in various parts of the Empire, on that auspicious 

 occasion in the coming year, when we shall celebrate the centenary 

 of the foundation of our Society. 



Sir Akchtbald Geikie, in reply, expressed the pleasure with 

 which he received this medal on behalf of his friend, Prof. Adams, 

 from whom the following letter had just been received in answer to 

 the Secretary's announcement of the Award : — 



' Petrographical Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, February 2nd, 1906. 

 'Professor Edmund J. Garwood, M.A., Secretary of the Geological Society. 

 ' Dear Sir, — 



' I have received your kind letter conveying the very welcome and most 

 unexpected information that the Council of the Geological Society have this year 

 awarded to me the Lyell Medal. I regret extremely that it is impossible for me to be 

 in London at the time of the Annual Meeting, so that I might have the pleasure of 

 receiving the Medal in person. 



' It is impossible for me to express adequately my thanks to the Council of the 

 Geological Society for the great and unexpected honour which they have done me. 

 Sir Charles Lyell's name, known as it is wherever Geology is taught, is among us here 

 associated with very kindly memories. For, during his second visit to America, 

 Sir Charles met Dr. (afterwards Sir William) Dawson, then a young man commencing 

 his geological work, and with him visited and studied the now renowned Joggins 

 section of the Carboniferous of Nova Scotia. Lyell's help, council, and encourage- 

 ment at that time, greatly stimulated Dawson to increased endeavour and further 

 work. In 1881 Dawson became the recipient of the Lyell Medal, indicating that 

 his endeavours had been crowned with some measure of success. As Sir William 

 Dawson was my earliest teacher in Geology, as well as my predecessor in the Chair 

 which I now hold, the award of the Lyell Medal a second time to the Logan 

 Professor of Geology at McGill University will still further serve to perpetuate 

 Lyell's memory here, and to strengthen the bond of union between the geologists of 

 Canada and the great Geological Society which has its seat at the Capital of the 

 Empire. 



1 Please convey to the Council of the Society my sincere appreciation of the 

 honour which they have done me, and accept my best thanks for the very kind 

 words of your letter, in which you conveyed the announcement of the gift. 



' I remain, yours most sincerely, 



1 Feank D. Adams.' 



Prof. Adams was still in the full vigour of life, and there was 

 every reason to hope that his distinguished career would be prolonged 



