1 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May I9O3, 



The President in handing the remainder of the Balance of 

 the Proceeds of the Lyell Geological Fund, awarded to Mr. Sydney 

 S. Buckman, to Dr. P. A. Bather, M.A., for transmission to the 

 recipient, addressed him in the following words : — 



Dr. Bather, — 



In the year 1897 the Council of the Geological Society awarded 

 to Mr. Buckman the proceeds of one of their Funds, in acknow- 

 ledgment of the important work which he had already accomplished 

 among the Jurassic Invertehrata, and of his investigations into the 

 stratigraphical details of the Jurassic formations, expressing their 

 confidence that he would be certain to continue and extend that 

 work. 



Their confidence has been more than justified ; for, since that time, 

 not only has he issued important supplements to his Monograph on 

 the Inferior Oolite Ammonites, published by the Palseontographical 

 Society, and continued his stratigraphical studies on Dundry Hill, and 

 on the Bajocian and Contiguous Deposits in the Northern Co ttes wolds, 

 but he has broken new ground in his memoir on ' Homoeomorphy 

 among Jurassic Brachiopoda,' that will doubtless have far-reaching 

 results. He has also published interesting and suggestive papers 

 upon river-development, especially with regard to the genesis of 

 the Severn and the Wye. 



For a quarter of a century he has devoted his energies and 

 genius to the advance of geology and palaeontology, and each 

 year he has presented to science something valuable and original. 

 The Council of the Geological Society, while sensible of the 

 inadequacy of this recognition of his labours, hope that he will 

 accept it as an earnest of their appreciation of his scientific 

 work. 



Dr. Bather, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



In receiving this Award on behalf of my friend, Mr. Buckman, it 

 had not been my intention to depart from the precedent that 

 commends silence to the recipients of funds as the most suitable 

 expression of their gratitude ; in fact, I took care to leave at home 

 the speech that he wrote out for me. But, since this somewhat 

 recent precedent has twice been broken this afternoon, I might seem 



