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It is a token also of another memento of our gratitude for the 

 teaching" and help received. This we hope will, this we know must 

 lead to further work — in all of us to continued study of Nature 

 in which our interest has been aroused or increased ; in some who 

 are carrying on research in other sciences to the use there of the 

 principles which they have learned in this ; while some of us may 

 have the high privilege of continuing our work in Geology and 

 following in that the method which always has been put before 

 us, to search Nature herself for facts and draw our inferences from 

 them. By such work in all directions we acknowledge and spread 

 the influence which we are here met to celebrate, and of this recog- 

 nition, less tangible but not less real than the portrait before us, it 

 shall be, we trust, a memorial and a promise. 



The Chairman then asked Mi-. Crowley, as one of the recent 

 students of University College, to say a few words. 



Mr. Crowley said : — 



It gives me very much pleasure to testify on this occasion to 

 the great enjoyment and profit that has been gained by Professor 

 Bonney's students in the lectures and on the excursions. It is very 

 true that what we have learned from him embraces far more than 

 Geology. If I may be allowed for a moment to point this by 

 personal experience, I would like to say that in my own profession, 

 the medical profession, I have again and again found the application 

 of the principles we have been taught. The true methods of scientific 

 research illustrated in the rocks have been of use in every branch of 

 my medical studies. I am sure that Professor Bonney's students, 

 whatever the direction of their work, will never forget the debt 

 which they owe to him. 



Professor Sollas was then called upon to make the presentation. 



Professor Sollas said : — 



I need scarcely say how highly I value the privilege of being 

 permitted to share in expressing the feelings of this assembly. The 

 task would be far easier had we merely to thank Professor Bonney 

 for imparted knowledge, but our debt to him is much greater than 

 that. His influence has penetrated deeper into our mental being, 

 moulding our habits of thought and guiding character in its growth. 



It is comparatively easy — dangerously easy I would say — to 



