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and your philosophic treatment of your subject. While you are an 

 eminent exponent of that school of thought and mode of study with 

 which the name of Hyatt is associated, your own work exhibits a 

 marked originality and independence of outlook. Moreover, not 

 only is it pregnant with suggestive ideas, hut it forms an example 

 of pure scientific research having proved to be of value in practical 

 application. 



Your investigations on the genetic relationships of the Jurassic 

 Ammonites are the best example of your specialized labours. In 

 a great monograph on the Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite Series, 

 and in other works, you have sought to apply with precision the 

 principles which underlie the correlations between ontogenetic and 

 phylogenetic growth. Your research among the Brachiopods is 

 110 less illuminating as an example of the application of evolutionary 

 principles ; and, in dealing with the fossil forms, you have illustrated 

 the production of similar morphic sequences in separate stocks and 

 the frequency of homceomorphy. 



The zonal method has been applied by you to stratigraphical 

 problems with exceptional minuteness and accuracy. So great is 

 your experience in handling difficult questions of zonal correlation, 

 that you have acquired powers of interpretation which seem almost 

 instinctive. 



Prom my own knowledge I can speak of the value of your 

 services in revising collections in public museums, and in converting 

 • mere accumulations of fossils into orderly sequences, eminently 

 instructive as regards both evolution of species and stratigraphical 

 significance. 



It is my privilege to hand to you this Medal and Award in 

 recognition of brilliant and original palasontological research. 



Mr. Buckman, in reply; said :— 

 Mr. President, — 



It is with feelings of very great pleasure that I receive the un- 

 expected honour of the Lyell Medal awarded to me by the Council ; 

 and when I listened to your kindly references to my work I felt 

 that your recognition of its merits was far too flattering, especially 

 when so much of what I hoped to accomplish still remains undone 

 owing to certain causes. But it gives me particular pleasure to 

 receive this award from your hands, for you belong to a body of 



