Yol. 51.] ANNIVERSARY MEETING LTELL MEDAL, xliii 



Award of the Ltell Medal. 



In handing the Lyell Medal (awarded to the Rev. J. F. Blake, 

 M.A., F.G.S.) to Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S.,Y.P.G.S., for transmission 

 to the recipient, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Prof. Judd, — 



The Council have awarded the Lyell Medal to the Rev. J. F. 

 Blake, in recognition of the valuable services which he has rendered 

 to Geology and Palaeontology by his zealous and disinterested 

 labours during the past quarter of a century. In that important 

 work on ' The Yorkshire Lias,' by Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S., and 

 himself, published in 1876, he gave the first detailed account of the 

 palaeontology of the successive stages of the Lias, with records of 

 the stratigraphical characters of each. He furthermore described 

 and figured many of the organic remains, and especially the Cepha- 

 lopoda, which then, as in later years, attracted his attention. 



Continuing for a while to devote himself to the study of the 

 Jurassic rocks, Mr. Blake communicated to this Society papers on 

 the Kimeridge Clay and on the Portland Rocks; and (together 

 with Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S.) an elaborate memoir on the 

 Corallian Rocks of England. 



Mr. Blake's monograph on British Fossil Cephalopoda from the 

 Palaeozoic rocks (1882) deserves especial mention. 



In later years he has wandered in many fields among the older 

 Palaeozoic and Metamorphic rocks — ever and anon seeking relief 

 among less ancient deposits. 



In his ' Annals of British Geology,' of which three volumes have 

 appeared (1890-92), Mr. Blake has laboured most industriously to 

 render further service to Geological Science. 



Will you convey to Mr. Blake, with this Medal, our most sincere 

 wishes for his health and for the success of his mission to Baroda ? 

 In India he will doubtless gather fresh stores of geological know- 

 ledge, the acquisition of which has been his happiest pursuit in 

 life. 



Prof. Judd, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 



I cannot but regret that the recipient of this Medal is not able 

 to be with us this afternoon, and to hear the graceful terms in 



