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transition were numerous, not few; and that common induction 
required that we should believe of the unknown, that which we see 
in the known, when other circumstances were identical. 
Ar the annual meeting of the London Geological Society, Feb- 
ruary 16, Mr. Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., President, in the chair, ; 
the Wollaston Gold Medal was presented to the Secretary, Mi, 
David Forbes, for transmission to Professor Dana, of Yale Col- 
lege, Connecticut. The President said : i 
“I have the pleasure to announce pa the Wollaston Mei 
has been conferred on Prof. Dana, of e College, New Havet, — 
S; ee in handing it to you for poe to our Foreign — | 
Member, I beg to express the great gratification it affords a 
that the aw ard of the Council has fallen on so distinguit a : 
ogist. Prot. Dana’s works have a worl he 
reputation. Few branches of geology but have recat 
attention. An able naturalist and a skilful mineralogist, he : 
studied our science with advantages of which few 0 u 3 
boast. His contributions to our science embrace cosmical ques- ) 
tions of primary importance—palxontological questions of 8 iit z 
interest—recent phenomena in their bearings on geo ogy Fa 
olo 
g the parria] as well as the principles of | 
common, the one universal, and the one kindred "pura 
in the various branches of science.”—Mr. David Forbes, in 
said that ‘it was to him a great pleasure to have, ! in the i a 
Prof. Dana, to return thanks to the society for their highes held 
and for this mark of the appreciation in which his abors of the 
in England. It had rarely if ever occurred in the e 
society that the Wollaston medal had bean awarded x prai 
gist who had made himself so well known in such W widely 
departments of the science, for not oily i was Pro 
eminent as a mineralogist, but his numerous m 
Crustaceans, Zoophytes, coral islands, volcanic fo on gene 
other allied subjects, as well as his admirable treaba th 
Geology , fully testify to the extensive range and great = 
his scientific researches gure 
of the pr 
The President then onie the balance 0 
