Xliv PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [MayiC^t), 



AWARD OE THE LyELL MEDAL. 



In presenting the Lyell Medal to Prof. PERcr Fey Kendall, 

 M.Sc, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Professor Kendall, — 



The Lyell Medal has been awarded to you by the Council as a 

 mark of honorary distinction and as an expression on the part of 

 the Council that you have deserved well of the Science, especially 

 by your researches into the Glacial Geology of England. 



The success which has attended your perfonnance of the arduous 

 duties connected with the Professorship of Geology in a young 

 University has only been achieved by strenuous labour ; that 

 you have been able at the same time to accomplish so much in 

 the field of research is a striking testimony to your indomitable 

 energy. 



Your delightful account of the Geology of Yorkshire, with its 

 wealth of detail and breadth of view, is a model of its kind, and 

 your report to the Eoyal Commission on the Concealed Coalfields of 

 North-Eastern England is important, both from a theoretical and 

 from a practical point of view ; but to the Fellows of this Society 

 you are probably better known by your long-continued and suc- 

 cessful researches into Glacial phenomena, and especially by your 

 brilliant account of the Glacial Lakes of Cleveland. 



I sincerely trust that the future may have in store a larger share 

 of time and opportunity for the exercise of your original powers. 



Prof. Kendall replied in the following words: — 

 Mr. President, — 



I thank the Council most heartily for the honour which it has 

 done me in the award of this valued distinction, and you, Sir, for 

 the generous terms in which you have conveyed it. 



My lot as a geologist has been cast in very pleasant places. I 

 have been trebly fortunate in my teachers, for, while my studies 

 in early manhood were directed by such distinguished exponents 

 of our science as my friend and master, Prof. Judd, and his 

 lieutenant, Prof. Grenville Cole, I owe not a little to the fact — 

 until this moment unknown to you — that, at a still earlier period 

 in my career, I had the advantage of attending a course of lectures 

 in the City of London delivered by you. 



