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do my best : I will endeavour, however, by working in the future, 

 to ' justify the honour.' 



You have mentioned, Sir, original work and teaching as qualifica- 

 tions. As regards original work, I have been singularly fortunate 

 in the co-operation of the late Prof. Nicholson, and in that of 

 Mr. Harker and Mr. Garwood. As a teacher, I am glad to see two 

 of my old pupils receiving awards on this occasion, as it shows how 

 happy I am in the nature of my classes. But I feel that the teacher's 

 influence must count for something, and I know it by experience, as 

 a pupil of the Woodwardian Professor. I am glad to take the present 

 occasion to bear testimony to Prof. Hughes's guidance of his pupils' 

 work — a guidance by no means exercised solely in the lecture-room. 



As one who was brought up in Lyellism, and am still being brought 

 up in it, I am unaffectedly gJad that the Lyell Medal has been 

 awarded to me. I do not use the term Lyellism in a narrow 

 sense, as a crystallized set of tenets, which will ever retain the 

 form in which they were left at the Pounder's death. I regard it 

 rather as possessing vitality, and as ever growing and spreading its 

 seed, like a goodly tree. 



In conclusion, while thanking you, Sir, for the kind words which 

 you have used in presenting the Medal, I beg to call your attention 

 to the fact that it is 25 years since you have shown me your first 

 kindness, and that kindness has continued ever since. I am 

 especially glad to receive the Medal from your hands. 



Award of the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



In presenting the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston 

 Donation Fund to Mr. George Thttrland Prior, M.A., of the 

 Natural History Museum, the President addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Prior, — 



In the course of the last thirteen years you have contributed a 

 number of papers to the Mineralogical Society, either alone or in 

 conjunction with other observers, in which you have described 

 minerals from various parts of the world. In the case, indeed, of 

 one of the late numbers of the Mineralogical Magazine, there would 

 be little left were the five papers wholly or partly written by you 

 taken out. In three cases you have done us the service of showing 

 that certain minerals had been christened more than once. You 



