i PKOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [March 1913, 



and other scientific questions, but with the discussion of problems 

 more directly bearing on the welfare and safety of the inhabitants 

 of India. Under your Directorship, from 1903 to 1909, the Geological 

 Survey of India maintained its high reputation ; while, at the same 

 time, advantage was taken of your sagacity and extended geological 

 experience to obtain your advice in the administration of Indian 

 scientific affairs. 



It is not possible for me to refer in detail to your published works. 

 They range through petrology, mineralogy, stratigraphy, and seis- 

 mology into the domain of geography, one of your later papers 

 having been devoted to an account of the remarkable dissemination 

 of salt which can be effected by wind. But I may emphasize, in 

 the words of the founder of this Medal, the fact that you are not 

 too young to have done much, and that you are not too old for 

 further work. It is the hope of the Council that you will continue 

 for many years at home the eminently useful career which you 

 have commenced so auspiciously in India. 



Sir Thomas HoLLAxn replied as follows : — 



I deeply appreciate the honour which has been conferred on me 

 by the Council, as well as the generous terms in which you, Sir,, 

 have referred to my work. Nothing could be more pleasing to a 

 worker than to be enjoined by one's seniors to continue in work. 



A glance over the list of my distinguished predecessors shows 

 how abundantly each one subsequently fulfilled the intention of 

 this Award, and thus one's feelings of satisfaction become tinged- 

 with those of great responsibility. At the same time, when one 

 realizes that the Council hitherto has never made a mistake in 

 its selection of a recipient for the Bigsby Medal, this feeling 

 of responsibility becomes again blended with that of hopeful 

 ambition. 



In so far as this honour is a recognition of work already done, 

 I should like to make it known to the Council that my chief aims 

 in India have been to facilitate the work of my colleagues. No- 

 published work of my own has caused me more anxious care, or 

 given me greater satisfaction, than the memoirs issued in the names 

 of my colleagues on the Geological Survey of India ; it was because 

 of their abundantly loyal support that a measure of success followed 

 my administration, and it is because this honour in effect recognizes 

 their good work, that it gives me peculiar pleasure. 



