xlviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL society. [May 1go2, 
knowledge of extinct vertebrates; a task which I hope, as opportunity occurs, may 
to some extent be resumed in the future. To you, Sir, as representing the Council, 
I have the pleasure of tendering my best thanks for the honour now conferred upon 
me; and I may add that my pleasure is intensified by receiving the Medal at the 
hands of a Cambridge contemporary who has risen to the distinguished position 
now occupied by yourself.’ 
The Prestpent then handed another Lyell Medal, awarded to 
Prof. Anton Frirscu, F.M.G.S., of Prague, to Prof. H. G. Srprey 
for transmission to the recipient, addressing him in the following 
words :— ; 
Professor SEELEY,— 
The Council of the Geological Society have awarded a_ Lyell 
Medal to Prof. Anton Fritsch, of Prague, in evidence of their appre- 
ciation of the value of his published works upon the Paleontology 
of Bohemia. In 1872, 1878, and’ 1887, Prof. Fritsch gave us 
a series of volumes on the Cephalopoda, Reptiles, Fishes, and 
Crustacea of the Bohemian Cretaceous rocks. But he is best known 
hy his researches in Paleozoic Paleontology. Twenty years ago, 
atter the publication of the first results of his labours on the Fossils 
of the Pilsen Coal-basin, this Society made to him an award from 
the Lyell Geological Fund. It is fitting, therefore, that he should 
receive the Lyell Medal on the completion of this great work, which 
represents twenty-five years of strenuous labour, and.has gained for 
its author a position of great eminence in the paleontological world. 
Much of the material with which he has had to deal would 
probably have been neglected by less accomplished observers. By 
careful drawing with his own hands, and by the aid of electrotype 
reproductions of perishable parts, he has brought vividly before us a 
new Permian terrestrial fauna, remarkable for its labyrinthodontia, 
fishes, arachnida, insects, and myrtapoda. Prof. Fritsch has not 
only described a vast amount of new paleontological material, but 
he has also used the knowledge thus gained for the purpose of 
clucidating the affinities of the different extinct groups with each 
other and with their nearest living allies. 
His studies of Labyrinthodontia demonstrated the wide range of 
structure in animals included in that group, and suggested the 
approximation of the several subdivisions which he described to 
different orders of reptiles. 
In conveying this Medal to Prof. Fritsch I ask you to express to 
