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deserve well of geological science. It is, Sir, a matter of extreme 

 gratification to me that I should find myself unexpectedly honoured 

 by the possession of a Medal founded by our great master, whom it 

 was my privilege to know personally, and whose memory I so 

 profoundly revere. 



A WARD OF THE BlGSBY MEDAL. 



The President then presented the Bigsby Medal to Dr. Henry 

 M. Ami, M.A., of the Canadian Geological Survey, addressing him 

 as follows : — 



Dr. Ami, — 



Those members of the Geological Society who interest themselves 

 in the Palaeozoic formations of Britain and America, are well aware 

 of the extent and importance of your work among the Palaeozoic 

 rocks and fossils of Canada. As Assistant-Palaeontologist to the 

 Canadian Survey, you have not only been for many years responsible 

 for much of the classification and tabulation of the Lower Palaeozoic 

 fossils in the Museum of that Survey, but you have visited the places 

 where they were collected in the field, and identified on the spot their 

 local horizons. This twofold knowledge has enabled you in several 

 of your papers, such as those bearing on the ' Geology of Quebec 

 & its Neighbourhood,' the ' Utica Terrane,' and the ' Organic 

 Bemains & Geological Formations of the Eastern Townships/ 

 to throw much light on disputed questions of succession and 

 stratigraphy. 



Nor has your work been restricted to the older Palaeozoic rocks. 

 Your papers on the ' Knoydart Formation of Nova Scotia,' the 

 ' Carboniferous Formations of Canada,' etc., have done much to clear 

 up the difficulties of the correlation of these formations with tfiose 

 of other countries. Neither must we forget the many papers in 

 which you, with fulness of knowledge and great depth of sympathy, 

 have laid before geologists and the public the lives and labours of 

 those great pioneers who have accumulated the vast store of 

 knowledge which we now possess of the rocks and fossils of the 

 Dominion. 



As an old friend and correspondent of yours, I am very pleased 

 that it has fallen to my lot to hand you this Medal ; and I can 

 assure you, on behalf of the Council of the Geological Society of 



