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Mr. Kendall replied in the following words : — 

 Mr. President, — 



The honour which the Council of the Geological Society has 

 conferred upon me was entirely unexpected, as I have not as yet 

 ventured to submit any of the results of my work upon the super- 

 ficial deposits of our country to the ordeal of criticism in this 

 room. 



I have had in my career the good fortune to be brought under 

 the influence of two Fellows of the Geological Society, to whose 

 inspiration and example I owe more than words of mine can express, 

 and by whom I have been directed into fields of enquiry^that have 

 yielded me subjects of study of constant and absorbing interest. 



The late Mr. Eobert G. Bell, whose unobtrusive, and for the 

 most part unpublished, labours are known to but few, gave me a 

 training in Upper Tertiary Palaeontology which I have found of 

 priceless value in the study of the more recent deposits. To the 

 late Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, moreover, I owe a deep debt of 

 gratitude for awakening in me, during a too brief intercourse, an 

 interest in the complicated and fascinating problems of Glacial 

 Geology. 



The Award of a moiety of the Lyell Fund I gratefully accept as 

 an assurance from my brother geologists that my observations have 

 been of some help in advancing the science, though they have led 

 me to conclusions which are not generally adopted. Thus en- 

 couraged I shall return to my pleasant labours animated by a new 

 zeal. 



The President then handed the other moiety of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund (awarded to Mr. Benjamin 

 Harrison, of Ightham) to Prof. T. Etjpert Jones, F.B.S., F.G.S., 

 for transmission to the recipient, and addressed him as follows : — 



Prof. Kupert Jones, — 



The Council of the Geological Society desire to express to Mr. 

 Benjamin Harrison their appreciation of his earnest labours carried 

 on for more than fifteen years in the neighbourhood of Ightham, 

 resulting in the remarkable discoveries of Paleolithic Flint 

 Implements of special character, lying on the surface of the plateau 

 at all levels up to nearly GOO feet above the sea. Some idea of their 



