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for many years to come. That his geological activity shows no 

 sign of slackening is proved by an intimation which the speaker 

 had recently received from him, that he had completed the detailed 

 investigation of a wide Archaean tract of Canada, and that the paper 

 containing the account of this investigation might be expected in this 

 country at an early date. His researches on the flow of rocks are 

 also still in progress, and some further results on this interesting 

 subject may be looked for before long. ~No more fitting recipient 

 of this medal could have been selected, than the geologist who carries 

 on so ably the traditions of Logan and Dawson in Canada. 



Award of the Prestwich Medal. 



The President then presented the Prestwich Medal to Mr. 

 William Whitaker, E.P.S., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Whitaker, — 



The Prestwich Medal is awarded to you, as an acknowledgment 

 of the work that you have done for the advancement of geology, 

 particularly by your researches among the Tertiary strata of the 

 London and Hampshire Basins. Twenty years ago the Council 

 awarded to you the Murchison Medal as an acknowledgment of your 

 contributions to our science, which were particularized by the 

 President of that day. Since then you have not been idle, and your 

 recent work has been conducted on lines similar to those along 

 which your earlier labours were carried on. 



The Prestwich Medal is, however, doubtless awarded to you, not so 

 much on account of what you have done since receiving the Murchison 

 Medal, as in recognition of the value of your researches in those 

 parts of our science which were advanced in a high degree by the 

 Founder of the medal which I am about to hand to you, namely, 

 the study of the Tertiary and Quaternary deposits. The importance 

 of your labours among the Tertiary deposits was aptly acknowledged 

 by Dr. Bonney in 1886, in the following words : 



'Your papers on the western end of the London Basin, and on the Lower 

 London Tertiaries of Kent, deserve to be ranked with the classic memoirs of 

 Prestwich, as elucidating the geology of what I may call the Home District.' 



You have also followed in the footsteps of Prestwich in matters 

 of economic geology. I may especially refer to the question of 



