:$>art 2] ANNIVERSARY MEETING- — BIGSBT MEDAL. li 



Mr. Bailey has served his country with distinction. After the War 

 he returned with undiminished vigour to Geology, and we look 

 forward with pleasant anticipation to the publication in the near 

 future of the results of his researches in the Island of Mull. In the 

 •course of military service, he found opportunity to describe the 

 igneous rocks of Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound. Among other 

 ■contributions to Geology, I may mention Mr. Bailey's work on the 

 petrology of Carboniferous and Old Red Sandstone rocks, and that 

 with Prof. P. F. Kendall on the glaciation of East Lothian. In 

 handing the Bigsby Medal to you for transmission to the Medallist, 

 I would ask you to express to him our regret that he was unable 

 "to be with us to-day. 



Mr. Lamplugh, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 

 I will ask your permission to read the following communication 

 Teceived from the Medallist : — ' Please convey my thanks to the 

 President and Council for the honour that they have done me in 

 .recognizing my efforts towards the furtherance of Highland 

 Geology. We in Scotland are fortunate, in that our difficulties 

 are our delight ; and, as we face them, we always remember a 

 little band of pioneers whose devotion in the past has opened up 

 ;the way for fresh advances.' 



Award from the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



The President then handed the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Wollaston Donation Fund, awarded to Herbert Harold Read, 

 M.Sc, to Dr. J. S. Flett, F.R.S., for transmission to the 

 (recipient, addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Flett, — 



Almost immediately after joining the staff of the Geological 

 Survey, Mr. Read volunteered for military service. Invalided out 

 of the army in 1917, he began work in the complicated region 

 of Lower Banffshire and Northern Aberdeenshire, and made the 

 fullest use of the opportunities which that region offered for 

 research into the succession of the Highland schists. An im- 

 portant piece of petrographical work was the recognition in 



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