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land," " On the Date of the last Elevation of Central Scotland " (in 

 vol. xviii. of onr Journal), " On the Phenomena of Succession 

 amongst the Silurian Rocks of Scotland " (Trans. Glasgow Geol. 

 Soc. vol. iii.), and " On Earth Sculpture." The Council believed, 

 too, that it would be gratifying to you to receive as a mark of their 

 esteem and sense of your untiring labours, the Medal founded by 

 one with whom in earlier life you were closely associated, and 

 whose endowed Chair of Geology in the University of Edinburgh 

 you have been the first to fill. 



Prof. Geieie, in reply, said, — 



Mr. President, — 



If any thing could add to the gratification with which I receive 

 this honour from the Geological Society, it would be the very kind 

 and flattering terms in which you, Sir, have made the award, and 

 the Eellows have been pleased to receive the announcement. The 

 Geological Society of London has always seemed to me to be truly 

 the Geological Society of the British Empire, electing its Eellows 

 and bestowing its rewards, not in a local, but in a truly catholic and 

 generous spirit. This conviction was renewed and strengthened in 

 my mind on receipt of the unexpected intimation of the bestowal of 

 one of the Society's Medals upon myself, as my contributions to 

 science have but rarely appeared in the Society's publications, and 

 I am so seldom able to be present within the Society's walls. I 

 receive the Medal with peculiar pleasure ; first, as a valuable mark 

 of the Society's recognition, and next, as another link of association 

 with the memory of Murchison, which is one of the most precious * 

 possessions of my life. 



A WARD OF THE LyELL MEDAL. 



The President next handed the Lyell Medal to Mr. Warington 

 W. Smyth, E.R.S., E.G.S., for transmission to Dr. J". W. Dawson, 

 E.P.S., E.G.S., of Montreal, and addressed him as follows : — 



Mr. Warington Smyth, — 



Sir Charles Lyell, in founding the Medal that bears his name, 

 intended that it should serve as a mark of honorary distinction, 

 and as an expression on the part of the governing body of the 

 Society of their opinion that the Medallist has deserved well of 

 science. I need hardly say that the Council, in awarding the Lyell 

 Medal to Principal Dawson, have done so with a sincere apprecia- 

 tion of the high value of his truly great labours in the cause of 

 Palaeontology and Geology. When I refer to his published papers, 

 I find that they number nearly 120, and that they give the results 

 of most extensive and valuable researches in various departments of 

 geology, but more especially upon the palaeontology of the Devonian 



