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But, passing from merely personal considerations, I receive this 

 award with peculiar satisfaction, because I regard it as another link 

 in the chain of mutual kindness and helpfulness which binds 

 together this Society and the Geological Survey. Among the re- 

 cipients of the Wollaston Medal I find the names of all my prede- 

 cessors at the head of the Survey. That you should have added my 

 name to the list is doubly gratifying, for it may, I trust, be taken 

 as a proof that the feelings of cordial sympathy, which have so long 

 united the two bodies, have not been weakened during my tenure 

 of office. Survey men are proud of their connexion with this 

 Society, and they share, I know, in the gratification which this new 

 expression of the Society's good will towards us cannot but create 

 in our minds. 



If anything could add to the personal pleasure of the award it 

 would be that the medal should be placed in my hands by an old 

 and valued friend like yourself. It is such little touches of human 

 interest which warm and light up formal ceremonies like these. 

 But there is a further source of satisfaction in the fact that while 

 you, Sir, are President of the Society, you are also, at the same 

 time, the worthy and honoured head of that great department of 

 the National Museum which is specially consecrated to the cultiva- 

 tion of our beloved science. The Triple Alliance of the Society, the 

 Museum, and the Survey is a league neither for offence nor for 

 defence, but stands as a symbol of that brotherhood which unites 

 the promoters of science in one common bond, and as a type of that 

 union of the spirit of emulation with the spirit of co-operation to 

 which the advance of Geological Science in this country is so largely 

 due. 



A WARD OF THE WOLLASTON DONATION FUND. 



The President then presented to Mr. W. W. Watts, M.A., F.G.S., 

 late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and now of the 

 Geological Survey of England and Wales, the Balance of the Proceeds 

 of the Wollaston Donation Fund, addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Watts, — 



In presenting to you the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Fund the Council of the Geological Society desire to recognize the 



