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its interests were watched over by our lost leader, whose memory 

 we shall long preserve. 



On behalf of Lady Evans, Mr. Lewis Evans replied in the 

 following words : — 



Mr. President. — 



Speaking on behalf of Lady Evans and my late father's family, 

 I have to express our great appreciation of the honour which the 

 Society has paid to his memory in awarding to her the Prestwich 

 Medal; we also recognize the special fitness of the award because 

 of the long, unbroken, and most intimate friendship between Sir 

 Joseph Prestwich and my father; and because, on account of his 

 knowledge of medallic art, my father was chiefly responsible for the 

 design of this medal. 



To you, Sir, I wish to tender our special thanks for your kind 

 and sympathetic words on the occasion of this presentation, termi- 

 nating in so graceful a manner the fifty-year-long connexion 

 between my father and your illustrious Society. 



Award of the Woleaston Donation Fund. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. Arthur John Charles Molyneex, 

 -F.G.S., addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Molyneex, — 



Thanks to the enterprise of scientific explorers, the Continent of 

 the Sphinx is slowly yielding up its mysteries. 



One of these explorers we are glad to welcome in your person on 

 ■this occasion. We owe to your exertions important contributions 

 to our knowledge of the geology of Southern Rhodesia and 

 Bechuanaland : all of these are distinguished by carefulness of 

 description and caution in inference. 



You were the first to give a scientific account of the Victoria 

 Falls, and to explain their origin. When the British Association 

 visited the Falls in 1905, your work was very searchingly criticized ; 

 along with my fellow-geologists, I had the satisfaction of recognizing 

 its faithfulness to fact as well as its theoretical adequacy. 



We are all glad to find that the climate of Africa has treated you 

 leniently, and we hope that when you return you will be able to 

 throw further light on that still mysterious continent. 



