xii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1902, 
of this work appearing in 1900. In 1888 he made known the dis- 
covery of Olenellus in the Lower Cambrian rocks of Esthonia, and 
he has subsequently described and figured the first Russian Olenellus 
O. Michwitzia). 
Dr. Schmidt’s work, both paleontological and stratigraphical, 
bears the impress of unsparing labour, modest caution, and thorough- 
ness ; and the results that he has obtained have been invaluable in 
the development of our knowledge of the geology and fossils of the 
Baltic Provinces. He is one of the last survivors of the heroic age 
of Geology, being the contemporary and occasional colleague of Eich- 
wald, Pander, Keyserling, De Verneuil, Murchison, and Barrande. 
The award of our Wollaston Medal to this eminent Russian geologist 
and palxontologist is not only expressive of our hearty recognition 
of his life-long devotion to the study of the rocks and fossils of his 
native land, but is also a grateful acknowledgement of the important 
services which he and his countrymen have rendered to the general 
advancement of geological science. 
Prof. SreLzy replied in the following words :— 
Mr. PrestpEnt,— 
Dr. Friedrich Schmidt desires to express his thanks for the 
honour of the award of the Wollaston Medal, and to say how much 
he regrets his inability to be present here, for he gratefully appre- 
ciates this expression of generous sympathy with his work. In 
early life he wandered. through Siberia, where he learned the 
English language, which enabled him to contribute to the Society’s 
Journal, 
I have known Dr. Schmidt as Administrator of the Geological 
Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, where 
l examined the materials described in his memoirs; and, in common 
with members of the International Geological Congress, I have been 
euided by him along the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, from 
St. Petersburg to (sel, to the principal scenes of his work among the 
Cambrian and Silurian rocks and the Drift-deposits in the Eastern 
Baltic Provinces of Russia. And I may be permitted to say that 
ull his work seems to me characterized by breadth of treatment and 
lucidity. In Schmidt, the gifts and attainments of the naturalist 
illuminate the work of the geologist; and his search for truth 
never wearles and never hastes, till all available facts are brought 
into illustrative relation with his research. His many-sided studies 
