Vol. 58.] | ANNIVERSARY MEETING—WOLLASTON MEDAL, xli 
AWARD oF THE Wottaston MEDAL. 
In handing the Wollaston Medal, awarded to Dr. FRrepricu 
Scumipr, F.M.G.S., of St. Petersburg, to Prof. H. G. Sretxy, for 
transmission to the recipient, the Prusippnr addressed him as 
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follows :— 
Professor SEELEY,— 
Friedrich Schmidt is our chief living authority upon the rocks 
and fossils of the Baltic Provinces of Russia. The work of ascer- 
taining the order and organic remains of the richly fossiliferous 
strata of Esthonia, from the base of the Cambrian to the summit of 
the Devonian, originally commenced in broad outline by Kichwald, 
Pander, and others between the years 1830 and 1850, was taken up 
in great detail in 1853 by Schmidt, who was at that time Professor 
at the University of Dorpat. In the year 1856 he published his 
first work, ‘ Die Silurische Formation von Estland, Nordlivland 
und CEsel.’ which at once became the standard and was referred 
to in detail by Murchison in his own paper on the subject in the 
Quarterly Journal of this Society for, 1857. Even at that time 
Dr. Schmidt had recognized between 400 and 500 fossils in these 
Esthonian rocks, had separated the Lower and Upper Silurian 
faunas, and had proved the existence of Hurypterus and Cephalaspis 
in the highest beds of his country. 
For the next thirty years he continued these researches, and by 
the year 1882 he had completed a general survey of the region, had 
separated the Lower Palzozoic formations into the three faunal 
divisions of Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian, and distinguished 
some fifteen zones and sub-zones in the collective succession. He 
also published a map showing the distribution of the major zones, 
in readiness for the International Geological Map of Europe. 
Dr. Schmidt’s results have enabled the whole of the Russian 
Paleozoic Series to be paralleled with the corresponding rocks of 
Scandinavia and other parts of the world. 
In constant connection with the stratigraphical work, he has 
especially busied himself in the development and description of the 
paleontology of the Paleozoic succession. He has figured and des 
scribed the ‘Trilobites of the entire series, publishing the first part 
of his ‘ Revision der Ostbaltischen Silurischen Trilobiten’ in 1881, 
the fourth part in 1894, and the fifth part in 1898. He has also 
worked out the Eurypteride and the Leperditiade, the final parts 
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