﻿Vol. 6 1.] ANNIVERSARY MEETING WOLLASTON MEDAL. XXXIX 



Award op the Wollaston Medal. 



In presenting* the Wollaston Medal to Dr. J. J. Harris Teall, 

 E.K.S., the President addressed him as follows : — 



Dr. Teall, — 



The Council have unanimously awarded to you the Wollaston 

 Medal, in recognition of the value of your researches concerning 

 the mineral structure of the Earth, and particularly of your contri- 

 butions to the science of Petrology generally, and more especially 

 to our knowledge of the structure and composition of the rocks of 

 the British Islands. 



With regard to the nature of those researches I need add nothing : 

 the published work of a Wollaston Medallist is familiar to the 

 students of our science in all parts of the world, and will remain in 

 evidence to enable the geologists of the future to appreciate its 

 value. 



But, although this Medal has been awarded to you for your 

 researches, not on account of these alone are we proud of you. 



When presenting you to the degree of Doctor of Science honoris 

 causa in the University of Dublin last year, the Public Orator 

 referred to you as ' a man as dear to all for the kindliness of his 

 nature as he is admired by all for the profoundness of his learning.' 

 Thanks to this kindliness of nature, you have ever placed your great 

 stores of knowledge at the disposal of other workers. How much 

 work we thus owe to you will never be known, for in helping others 

 you have ever acted on the principle of not letting your left hand 

 know what your right hand doeth ; but were it known, I can safely 

 aver that it would be found to have promoted researches concerning 

 the mineral structure of the Earth, to so great an extent as to render 

 you doubly deserving of this Medal. 



Each one of your predecessors, in the high post which you occupy 

 as Director of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, 

 has received the Wollaston Medal, and we welcome its award to 

 you, who, like them, have done so much to foster the friendly 

 feeling which exists, and will, I trust, ever exist, between the 

 members of that Survey and other geologists. 



That it falls to my lot to hand you this Medal is a source of keen 

 pleasure to me. It is now more than a quarter of a century since 

 we first met in our College ; and since then I have indeed profited 



