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part an encouragement for the future, and with it I must accept 

 the responsibility of justifying to the best of my powers the choice 

 of the Council. 



To me, finally, this Medal will be in a special sense a memento 

 of the ten }*ears which I spent so pleasantly on the Geological 

 Suryey of Scotland : not only because the Medal itself was founded 

 by a former Chief of the Surrey, and comes to me from the hand of 

 one of his successors ; but also because this Award adds my name 

 to a list which includes those of yourself, who, as Director-General, 

 despatched me to the island which you knew so well ; of Dr. Home, 

 head of the Scottish branch, my constant friend and counsellor ; of 

 Dr. Peach, my immediate superior on the Suryey ; and (last year) 

 of Mr. Clough, the colleague who initiated me into the craft of 

 geological surveying, setting a standard to which, I fear, his pupil 

 has not often attained. 



A WARD OP THE LtELL MEDAL. 



In handing the Lyell Medal, awarded to Dr. Joseph Frederick 

 Whiteaves, F.R.S.Can., to Lord Strathcoxa, for transmission to 

 the recipient, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Lord Strathcoxa, — 



The Lyell Medal of the Geological Society is this year awarded 

 to Dr. Joseph Frederick TThiteaves, as a mark of the Council's 

 appreciation of his prolonged and valuable contributions to the 

 Geology and Palaeontology of Canada. As a young man, before he 

 settled in the Xew World, he had already shown his scientific bent 

 by several published papers on the land and freshwater mollusea 

 and on the fossils of some of the Oolitic formations of Oxfordshire. 

 Half a century ago he transferred his home and his geological 

 energy to Canada, and from that time until now his scientific activity 

 has known no pause. In 1876 he was appointed to succeed the 

 illustrious Billings as Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. In that official capacity he found increased opportunity 

 of studying the fossils that were brought to the Survey Museum 

 from the eastern provinces, from Manitoba, and from the far shores 

 of the Pacific Ocean. Thus every fossiliferous formation in the 

 wide Dominion has come under his review, and he has described 

 many new forms in various grades of the animal kingdom. Following 



