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London, that it is a special gratification to them to award it 

 to one whose work has been done in the country of the founder 

 of the Medal himself, and among the rocks and fossils studied 

 by him. 



Dr. Ami replied in the following words : — 



Mr. President, — 



I am deeply sensible of the great honour which the Council of 

 this Society have conferred upon me. Especially am I gratified in 

 receiving this Award at the hands of one who has been so generous 

 a counsellor and critic in matters geological for the past eighteen 

 years. Words fail me to express in adequate terms the gratitude 

 which fills me at present. Suffice it to say, that through the 

 liberality of the Canadian Government and the courtesy of the 

 Hon. the Minister of the Interior (Mr. Clifford Sifton), Head of the 

 Geological Survey Department at Ottawa, I have acceded to his 

 wishes, and come over in person to receive at your hands the 

 award so generously made. 



It is always a source of inspiration to come to London, the centre 

 of thought, the fountain-head of research and radiator of power ; 

 and, believe me, that, combined with the pleasure and privilege of 

 attending one of the Anniversary Meetings of this Society, of which 

 I have been a humble Fellow for some eighteen years, there 

 lurked in my mind the thought of gain in valuable information 

 during my stay, which I know will enable me all the better and 

 more intelligently to carry out the special work on the Silurian 

 faunas and succession of Eastern Canada which has been entrusted 

 to me. 



That my name should become associated with that of the late 

 Dr. «Bigsby, founder of the Medal, is a matter of which I have 

 great reason to be proud. Bigsby was a pioneer in British North 

 American geology. It has been my lot and good fortune recently to 

 collect all the data relating to the geological history of the Grand 

 Manitoulin and adjacent islands of Palaeozoic age in the Lake- 

 Huron district of Canada, and it may not be uninteresting to state 

 here, that when the unexpected news of this Award reached me 

 in Ottawa, I had then completed, and on my desk, a synopsis of 

 Dr. Bigsby's geological explorations in that region during the early 

 years of the last century. 



