Vol. 6$.~] ANNIVERSARY MEETING WOLLASION ErJND. xlvil 



official geologist at the Cape, Andrew Wyley, once a Fellow of this Society, it is 

 impossible not to perceive that, had he been allowed to continue his work, the geology 

 of the Colony would long ago have been well known, even as regards those parts 

 where to-daj" the broad outlines are still uncertain. 



' Circumstances prevent the establishment of a lavishly-equipped Survey in this 

 Colony, and there are man}' problems which have to be left almost untouched because 

 their investigation requires too detailed work ; but your award will make Cape 

 geologists feel that their efforts are warmly appreciated, and I believe that my 

 colleagues past and present will share mj- gratification. 



' For nryself, I must say that your generous gift will always urge me to do better 

 work, and my onl}- regret is that I am unable to receive the Medal personally from 

 a man whose writings have been a constant source of instruction and pleasure to 

 me ever since Geology began to be the great interest of my life. 



' Believe me, 



' Yours faithfully, 



'Arthur W. Rogers." 



AWARD OE THE WoLL ASTON DoNATION-FuND. 



Iii handing the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation-Fund, awarded to Dr. Arthur Vaughan, B.A., to Prof. 

 W, W. Watts, for transmission to the recipient, the President 

 addressed him in the following words : — 



Professor Watts, — 



The Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation-Fund has 

 been assigned to Dr. A. Vaughan, as a mark of the Council's appre- 

 ciation of the excellence of his contributions to Geologj-, and in 

 particular of his application of the zonal method of stratigraphical 

 classification to the Carboniferous Limestone of this country. I 

 had often wondered why this method, which was so successfully 

 adopted many years ago for the corresponding portion of the 

 Carboniferous system of Belgium, should never have been similarly 

 applied to our own great Limestone-deposit. Dr. Vaughan has now 

 demonstrated, by a careful study of the corals and the brachiopods, 

 how completely it is available here, and the basis of investigation 

 which he has laid so firmly in the Bristol region will doubtless 

 prove to be one upon which the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous 

 Limestone throughout the rest of the British Isles may be satis- 

 factorily worked out. When you transmit to him this Award, will 

 you assure him that the Society looks forward with much interest 

 to the continuation of his important labours ? 



