anniveesary meeting wollaston donation fund. ;^^ 



Award of the Wollaston Donation Pund. 



In handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation 

 Fund to Archibald Geikie, LL.D., E.E.S., for transmission to 

 Mr. John Hoene, F.G.S., the President addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Geikie, — 



The Council of the Geological Society being desirous of aiding 

 Mr. John Horne in carrying on his important investigations in the 

 Volcanic and Glacial geology of the northern part of our islands, 

 have awarded to him the Wollaston Fund for the present year. 

 Seeing that in their researches Messrs. Peach and Horne have been 

 so constantly united, it was felt that in the recognition of their 

 services to science they ought not to be divided ; in the roll of 

 honour containing the names of those who have received this award 

 the name of Mr. Horne will appropriately follow that of his friend. 

 In transmitting this award to our fellow- worker, will you express 

 the hope that it may be of some service to him in enabling him to 

 continue those studies which have already done so much towards 

 elucidating the structure of the land of his birth ? 



Dr. Geikie, in reply, said: — 



Mr. President, — • 



At the request of my friend and colleague, Mr. Horne, I have 

 much pleasure in receiving for him the Wollaston Fund, and in con- 

 veying to the Society his cordial thanks for this mark of its appre- 

 ciation. If anything could add to the pleasure with which he 

 receives this prize, it would be the association with his friend and 

 companion in geological labour, Mr. Peach, to which you have 

 alluded. A member of the Geological Survey, placed in a distant 

 and inaccessible region, has need of all the enthusiasm of his 

 nature when he has to combat with great and difficult geological 

 problems amid the lesser troubles of hard fare, poor lodging, and 

 the absence of all those sympathies of human intercourse which 

 so help us in our pursuits. To such a far off and, as it were, for- 

 saken brother there can come no greater encouragement and 

 stimulant than recognition of his labours from those who stand 

 nearer to the central pulse of life in the country. Mr. Horne is so 

 enthusiastic in the discharge of his official duties and in the cause of 

 science as sometimes to risk his health by prolonged exposure to 

 the inclemencies of the boisterous north. In this award he feels 



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