Vol. 67.] ANNIVERSARY MEETING LYELL MEDALS, xlv 



Dr. Bather, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I had thought of ranch to say on this occasion, but the generous 

 and nattering terms in which you have recounted the things that I 

 have done have made me think rather of those things that I have 

 left undone. If the little that I have done has seemed of such 

 service to Geology as to merit this high distinction, while I am 

 proud to receive it, I cannot forget the friends in all parts of the 

 world who have so greatly facilitated my work by the loan of 

 valuable specimens. And the thought of them again reminds me 

 of the material accumulated, but still untouched. A palaeontologist 

 at the British Museum is often envied, much as Dionysius of 

 Syracuse was envied by Damocles. If any Damocles were to take 

 my place he would see, it is true, a rich feast of Cystids and 

 Crinoids laid before him. But the chains of office would per- 

 petually hinder him from feeding, and every day he would dread 

 the fall of a sword in the shape of a peremptory letter demanding 

 the immediate return of some necessary specimen. 



It is my hope, Sir, that this award by so high a tribunal may 

 convince my friends and superiors that I really have made good use 

 of the rich material entrusted to me ; certainly it will encourage 

 me to make my own future labours no less deserving of their 

 continued patience. For these reasons and for many others, which 

 must remain unexpressed, I offer to the Council my heartfelt 

 thanks. 



The President then presented the other Lyell Medal to 

 Dr. Arthur Walton Rowe, F.G.S., addressing him as follows : — 



Dr. Howe, — 



It is no small pleasure to me that it is my duty, as President of 

 the Geological Society, to ask your acceptance of the Lyell Medal 

 which the Council of the Society have awarded to you, in recognition 

 of the great service which you have rendered to British Geology by 

 your researches on the succession and distribution of the zones of the 

 English Chalk. Using delicate and refined means of your own for 

 the development of the fossils, and collecting the latter from the 

 successive horizons with the most scrupulous care, you soon con- 

 vinced yourself that the key to the evolution of the Echinoids and 

 the basis for their classification was to be found in their succession 



