34 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



the Medal from your hand, Sir, not only as President of the Geo- 

 logical Society, hut as the Director-General of the Geological 

 Survey. I thank you for the complimentary manner in which you 

 have referred to my work in the Triassic and other strata around 

 Liverpool. 



Award of the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The Peesident then presented one half of the Balance of the pro- 

 ceeds of the Lyell Geological Pund to Mr. J". W. Gregory, B.Sc, 

 P.G.S., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Gregory, — 

 One moiety of the Balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Fund has 

 been assigned by the Council to you as a token of its warm appre- 

 ciation of your researches and as an encouragement to you to 

 continue them. You have shown yourself to be at once an accom- 

 plished palaeontologist and an able petrographer ; and we trust that 

 in both capacities you may live amply to fulfil the promise which 

 you have given of a brilliant career in the future. 



Mr. Gregory, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



The Fund which the Council has so kindly awarded me helps me 

 to realize more than usually the responsibility of holding an appoint- 

 ment at the Natural History Museum, for I feel that it is to the 

 opportunities afforded by its collections and libraries, and by the 

 generous assistance and encouragement of the more experienced 

 members of the staff, that the little that I have been able to do is 

 entirely owing. You, Sir, have kindly referred to the fact that I 

 have occasionally wandered from the work of descriptive palaeon- 

 tology ; I can only offer as an excuse for thus presuming to intrude 

 into the other branch of geological work, the desire occasionally to 

 exchange the air of the museum for that of the field, as well as the 

 wish for the training acquired in pursuing the more precise method 

 of research. 



This Award will encourage me to try to continue in the path of its 

 founder in regarding fossils not merely as the cells of a phylogenetic 

 tree, but as the witnesses from whose evidence we must learn the 

 physical conditions and faunistic migrations of the successive periods 

 of the past. 



