Xlii PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I907,, 



It is by no merit of mine that I am a lover, an ardent lover oil 

 Geology, for I feel, perhaps with a lover's partiality, that our' 

 gracious mistress, bountiful as she is fair, requires only to be seen 

 as she truly is to captivate at once all hearts. I have found in her 

 service a perpetual delight, and if your kind wishes should be 

 fulfilled shall ever continue to do so, for she repays our constancy 

 with a variety that never stales. 



I know how close is the interest taken by you, Sir, in the cause 

 of Geology at Oxford, it has been a frequent source of encourage- 

 ment to me, and the hope you now express is that which lies 

 nearest to my own heart. As a teacher I increasingly feel with 

 advancing years how great is my debt to my masters, Huxley, 

 Ramsay, Bonney, and, Sir, yourself, for I have been a diligent 

 student of your teaching ever since the appearance of ' The Scenery 

 of Scotland ' in 1865. But to you, Sir, and to my revered tutor, I 

 am indebted not only for direct instruction, but for the light of 

 example, the privilege and stimulus of friendship, and indeed for 

 those very opportunities by which I stand here to-day. I count it 

 therefore not the least of my good fortune that I receive the, 

 Wollaston Medal from your hands. 



AwAED OF THE MURCHISON MEDAL. 



The rEESiDENT then presented the Murchison Medal to Mr. Aleeei> 

 Haekee, F.R.S., addressing him in the following words: — 



Mr. Haekee, — 



The Murchison Medal has been assigned to you as a testimony; 

 of the Council's appreciation of the importance of your contribu- 

 tions to Petrographical and Structural Geology. You had already 

 distinguished yourself by your studies in Cleavage, by the zeal and 

 success with which you had thrown yourself into the pursuit of 

 petrographical research along those modern paths in which this 

 department of our science has been so transformed and enlarged, 

 and lastly by the skill which you had shown in the field-investiga- 

 tion of the ancient igneous rocks of North Wales and of part of 

 the Lake District. With this reputation already established and 

 yearly growing, you were induced, at my request, to enter the 

 Geological Survey. Although the circumstances under which you 



