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time of his retirement. To begin with our own Society, he was 

 elected a Pellow in 1844. Pour years afterwards he was chosen a 

 Member of Council, and with alight intermissions he continued 

 to hold that office for more than thirty years. In 1862 he was 

 elected President, and repeatedly thereafter he was appointed a 

 Vice-President. He received our Wollaston Medal in 1871. The 

 Eoyal Society enrolled him among its Pellows in 1849, and awarded 

 him one of its Eoyal Medals in 1879. The Koyal Society of 

 Edinburgh bestowed its Neill Medal upon him in 1866. He was 

 elected a member (usually honorary) of many scientific societies in 

 this country ; while, of the numerous bodies abroad which placed his 

 name among those that they wished specially to honour, I will only 

 mention the Nuovi Lincei of Eome, the Eoyal Academy of Sciences 

 of Turin, the Academic Eoyale de Belgique, the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 Boston. As a mark of the appreciation of the Italian Government 

 for his services to science, and to the Italian geologists who started 

 the Geological Survey of that kingdom, or who came to this country 

 for the purposes of study, he was created a Knight of the Order of 

 SS. Maurice and Lazarus. 



His long residence in Wales during the progress of the Survey 

 there kindled in him an enthusiastic interest in the Principality, its 

 language and antiquities. Some of his most cherished friendships 

 were made there, and it was there that he found his wife, who was 

 the daughter of the Eev. Chancellor Williams of Llanfairynghornwy, 

 Anglesey. He married in 1852, and is survived by his widow and 

 one son and four daughters. 



On the death of Sir Eoderick Murchison in 1872, Sir Andrew was 

 appointed to succeed him as Director-General of the Geological 

 Survey ; and he continued to administer the affairs of this branch 

 of the public service untU the end of 1881, when he retired, and 

 received the honour of knighthood for his long and distinguished 

 services. His health gradually became impaired, and, quitting 

 London, he took up his abode permanently at Beaumaris, where he 

 spent the last eight years of his life. So long as he was able 

 he kept up his interest in his old pursuits, and was pleased to 

 renew old times with the friends who found their way to Wales to 

 visit him. But he took no personal part in geological discussion 

 after his retirement, devoting his time mainly to his favourite 

 authors, to whom he could now return free from all official dis- 

 tractions. In spite of increasing feebleness, his vigorous constitution 



