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use of them. There are few among those who have been both 

 learners and workers in the science during the last thirty years, who 

 do not retain grateful memories of the instruction and assistance 

 which at one time or another you have personally afforded them. 



Further, our science needs for its appreciation by the economic 

 world and the public those who, being familiar with the facts 

 already gathered together, will present them in a clear and con- 

 vincing form, and expound their practical applications. In this 

 respect also you have done our science lasting service. Indeed, 

 your long official career at the Museum of Practical Geology has 

 been a record of unselfish devotion to the advancement of the 

 practical and educational sides of geology. 



In countless ways — in reviews, in the later editions of lire's 

 famous ' Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, & Mines ' ; in your 

 masterly essays on ' Experimental Geology,' and on ' Fifty Years' 

 Progress in British Geology,' delivered as Presidential Addresses 

 before the Geologists' Association — not to mention anthropological 

 and other addresses — you have given evidence of your wide know- 

 ledge of the literature and substance of geology and the allied 

 sciences, of your sound judgment, and of your exceptional capacity 

 for transmitting to others the accurate knowledge which you possess. 



It affords, therefore, to the Council of the Geological Society the 

 greatest satisfaction to award to you the Lyell Medal which,; 

 according to the words of its founder, is to be given to one who 

 ' has deserved well of the science.' 



Mr. Rudder replied in the following words : — 

 Mr. President, — 



To have the privilege of standing here as the recipient of a Medal 

 is a far higher honour than I had ever dared to expect. While 

 acknowledging most gratefully, though I feel most inadequately, 

 the generous action of the Council in making this award, I am also 

 anxious to express my deep sense of indebtedness to you, Sir, for 

 the very indulgent words with which you have been so good as to' 

 enrich this presentation. If anything like personal detachment' 

 from such an award were permissible, I should like to be allowed 

 to regard this as a token of sympathy between this Society and the 

 institution with which I was so long connected, and where the 

 ruling desire of every officer is — if I may use the words of the 1 

 illustrious founder of this bequest, which you have just quoted — to- 



