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of nature have given a philosophical character to all Dr. Schmidt's 
contributions to science; and it is impossible not to realize that his 
scientific writings, which are many and valuable, give but inadequate 
expression to a personality which has powerfully influenced many 
to follow his methods and emulate his results. He has passed his 
7Oth vear, but works on, and looks forward to the early completion 
of his final memoirs on the Trilobites. 
He will warmly appreciate the terms in which the presentation 
of this Medal has been made, no less than the manner in which the 
Geological Society has endorsed the award of the Council. 
AWARD OF THE WoLLASTON Donation Funp. 
The PresipEnt then presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 
Wollaston Donation Fund to Mr. Lronarp James Spencer, M.A., 
F.G.S., of the Mineralogical Department, Natural History Museum, 
addressing him as follows :— 
Mr. SpenceR,— 
Your researches in Scientific Mineralogy during the last seven 
years constitute an important and solid contribution to natural 
knowledge. It is appropriate that the Council of this Society 
should mark their recognition of your labours by awarding to you 
the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, which was 
instituted to promote researches concerning the mineral structure 
of the earth. 
In a series of papers on individual species you have shown yourself 
to be a master of the methods of crystallographic and mineralogical 
research, and you have applied these methods with signal success to 
the investigation of difficult minerals, sonie of which had baffled the 
efforts of previous workers. 
Special interest attaches to those researches which you have 
carried out in collaboration with Mr. Prior, to whom an Award 
from this Fund was made two years ago; since these have led to the 
elucidation of species which had previously been misinterpreted, 
and have proved the identity of several rare minerals which were 
formerly ranked as different species. The most conspicuous instance 
is your joint study of binnite, whereby that mineral, regarded for 
45 years as a distinct species, was proved to be identical with the 
well-known mineral tennantite. 
