32 PEOCEEDIiS'GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



AwAPvD OF THE "WoLLASTOI^ IIeDAL. 



In presenting the WoUaston Gold Medal to Mr. Henry Benedict 

 Medlicott, M.A., P.E.S., the Peesidext addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Medlicott, — 



The Council of this Society are not unmindful of the fact that 

 many of our Pellows are engaged in the promotion of geological 

 science in every part of a vast empire ; in awarding to you the 

 highest honour which is at their disposal, they are following a pre- 

 cedent which was established more than Mty years ago, by the 

 presentation of the TVollaston Medal to Cautley and Falconer. In 

 that great Indian dominion where those famous geologists carried 

 on their important researches, you commenced your labours as far 

 back as the year 1854 : and for more than a third of a century you 

 have continued the almost incessant exertions which have led to 

 very important additions to our knowledge, often obtained only at 

 the price of severe hardships and at the risk of serious dangers. 

 During the last eleven years you have occupied the important and 

 responsible position of Director of the Indian Survey ; and it is to 

 your administrative ability in that position that we owe many of 

 the valuable results obtained by that Survey in recent years ; more 

 especially are we indebted to you, and to our Secretary, Dr. Blan- 

 ford, for that useful Compendium of Indian Geology which has now 

 become indispensable to aU students of our science. "We feel it to 

 be singularly appropriate that we are able to make this award to 

 you just at the time that you return to your native country for the 

 rest you have so well earned. 



Mr. Medlicott replied : — 



Mr. Peesidext, — 



The award of the AYoUaston Medal by the Geological Society is 

 the most gratifying distinction that a Geologist can receive. It is 

 only as a recognition of devotion to our Science that I can venture 

 to accept so great an honour. My work has been chiefly in combina- 

 tion with others, and it gives me much consolation to think that my 

 colleagues of the Geological Survey of India will share in this 

 reward and will appreciate it. 



