Vol. 59.] ANNIVERSARY MEETING LTELL EUND. xlix 



Awards from the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The President then presented part of the Balance of the Proceeds 

 of the Lyell Geological Eund to Mr. George Edward Dibley, 

 addressing him as follows : — 



Mr. Dibley, — 



You have, for a number of years, devoted the leisure-hours of a 

 busy life to the careful collecting of fossils from the Chalk, and 

 have thereby added much to our kuowledge of the distribution of 

 species in the several life-zones. The results of these labours have 

 been partly published in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Asso- 

 ciation, and they include the record of the discovery of a specimen 

 of especial interest, as it is believed to be a representative of the 

 lizard-like Rhynchocephalia, no example of which has been pre- 

 viously recorded from the Chalk. 



I have much pleasure in handing to you a moiety of the Balance 

 of the Lyell Geological Fund, which has been awarded to you by the 

 Council of this Society. 



Mr. Dibley replied in the following words :— 



Mr. President, — 



I beg to thank the Council of the Geological Society most 

 heartily for their kind appreciation of my efforts to further the 

 accurate knowledge of our Cretaceous geology by tjie systematic 

 and patient collecting of fossils zone by zone, a method of research 

 so clearly demonstrated by you, Sir, in the older Palaeozoic rocks. 

 I can assure you that it is a delight to me to be able to devote each 

 week-end to this branch of natural science ; and I only trust that 

 I may be spared to continue my labours on new ground as well as 

 on the old, so that I may be of further use in promoting the 

 advance of geological science. 



I may perhaps be allowed to add that, in thanking you for this 

 honour conferred upon me, it gives me especial pleasure to receive 

 it at your hands. 



