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for transmission to the recipient, and addressed him in the following 

 words : — 



Professor Garwood. — 



Ever since the beginning of Mr. Tiddeman"s work for the Geo- 

 logical Survey on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire, he has 

 kept his eyes open to the observation of exceptional facts and his 

 mind employed in working ont explanations for them. Thus he 

 has endowed our Science with the fertile suggestions which make 

 workers think on new lines. The excavation of the Victoria Cave, 

 with which he had so much to do, gave us valuable information 

 on the history of the Pleistocene Mammalia; his work on the 

 glaciation of North Lancashire still remains ' a model and a basis 

 for Glacial work all over the country ' ; his observations on the 

 faunas of the Carboniferous ' reef-knolls ' of the North of England 

 have put on record a wealth of observation and reasoning which 

 will contribute no little to the solution of the problems presented 

 by those remarkable structures ; and his researches upon the 

 raised beaches of Gower, covered with Glacial deposits, have ex- 

 tended the area of known Pleistocene movement beyond Yorkshire 

 and Cork. Those who have been with him in the field have good 

 cause to be especially grateful to him for the generosity with which 

 he has placed the riches of his knowledge at their disposal. He 

 has helped not only to advance Geology but to make geologists, and 

 in so doing he has invested his talent at compound interest. 



As a member of the Geological Survey, and one of the last of 

 that body who served under Sir Roderick Murchison, he has well 

 merited the award of the medal which bears that honoured name. 



Prof. Garwood expressed deep regret, which he felt was shared 

 by all present, that a sudden attack of influenza had prevented the 

 recipient from attending in person, and read, in accordance with 

 Mr. Tiddeman's request, the following reply : — 



; The award has given me the greatest possible pleasure and satisfaction, 

 and I owe to the President and Council rny warmest thanks. 



' I regret that I have not done more to merit it; but I hope that I may 

 take the Award as signifying that some of my former heresies have been more 

 or less accepted as orthodoxies by my present friends and colleagues, and for 

 this I may go on my way rejoicing. 



E. H. TlDDEMAN.' 



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