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distinction ' and as a token that the expectation which you raised 

 has been fulfilled. 



In handing the Medal to you, may I, as an old colleague, who 

 has been in sympathy with your task from its inception, con- 

 gratulate you upon its successful termination, and express the hope 

 that you will find as good work to do in the future as in the past ? 



Mr. Greenly replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President, — 



After such words as you have used, I find it difficult to express 

 rny feelings on this occasion. Foremost, however, is a sense 

 of the honour that is implied in recognition by the Council of this 

 historic Society. Next, it is a pleasure to receive it at the hands 

 of a former colleague and a friend of nearly 30 years' standing. 

 Finally, this medal bears the noble name of Lyell, association 

 wherewith cannot but convey a sense of elevation to the mind. 

 As to the methods pursued in the survey of Anglesey, to which you 

 allude, they were learnt under the inspiration of the greatest 

 master of the art of geological surveying, C. T. Clough, whose 

 loss is only too fresh in our memory. In reply to your concluding 

 remark, Sir, I am returning next month to live in Bangor, to take 

 up the mapping of the tract of Carnarvonshire adjacent to Angle- 

 sey, and to continue investigation of some of the man} r unsolved 

 problems of Anglesey itself. As upon the first award bestowed on 

 me by the Council of this Society, so do I look upon the Lyell 

 Medal at once as a high honour, and as an encouragement to 

 further research. 



Award from the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



The President then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of 

 the Wollaston Donation Fund to Capt. William Bernard 

 Kobinson King, B.A., addressing him as follows : — 



Captain King, — 



The Council has awarded to you the Wollaston Fund in 

 acknowledgment of the brilliant service that you have rendered in 

 applying your geological knowledge to military advantage during 

 the War. Your researches ' concerning 1 the mineral structure of 



