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Dr. Flett replied in the following words : — 

 Mr. President, — 



The honour which the Society has done me hy awarding to me 

 the Bigsby Medal is one of which I am deeply sensible. I can 

 assure you, Sir, that it will be my endeavour to see that the 

 stimulus that it gives to earnest scientific work, the injunction 'not 

 to rust unburnished, but to shine in use,' will not pass unregarded. 

 In the study of British rocks, principally the igneous and meta- 

 morphic, I have had exceptional advantages ; for I have received 

 the kindest assistance from my colleagues on the Geological Survey, 

 and especially from Dr. Teall, who also by his example has placed 

 before me the highest ideals of thoroughness and accuracy in 

 investigation. The labour spent in research is in the best sense its 

 own reward, but the pleasure which I have derived from it has 

 been greatly increased by the approbation which you have expressed 

 this afternoon in handing to me this Medal. 



Award of the Prestwich Medal. 



. In presenting the Prestwich Medal to Lady Evans, the President 

 addressed her as follows : — 



Lady Evans, — 



The Council has awarded to you the Prestwich Medal in memoriam 

 of Sir John Evans. 



It is now fifty years since Sir John Evans, in company with his 

 life-long friend Sir Joseph Prestwich, visited the scene of Boucher 

 de Perthes's famous discoveries at Abbeville. The results of that 

 visit in its effect upon the whole range of human thought would be 

 difficult to estimate : one of them is apparent in the increasing 

 growth of that new branch of Science— the Anthropology of the 

 Pleistocene Epoch — which Sir John Evans did so much to create. 



This award commemorates in some sense the joint labours of the 

 two friends ; that it was not made earlier is due to Sir John Evans's 

 long-continued and self-denying services on the Council. 



"We esteem ourselves fortunate that you, Lady Evans, who 

 shared his interests, and are yourself an antiquary, are able to 

 "be present on this occasion, and in handing you this Medal, I 

 desire to express, on the part of the Society, our deep appreciation 

 of the unceasing devotion and affectionate solicitude with which 



