ANNIVERSARY MEETING WOLL ASTON FUND. 



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" "Will you please present my best thanks to the Society for 

 having judged my labours for the advancement of geological science 

 worthy of the Bigsby Medal. 



4 ' It is a great and quite unexpected honour for me to have my 

 name on the list of all the good geologists who have received the 

 Medals of the old and illustrious London Geological Society. By 

 the award of the Bigsby Medal I feel myself honoured in the highest 

 degree, as nothing can be more precious to a scientific man than 

 the recognition of his endeavours by the masters and leaders of his 

 own special science. I was already greatly indebted to English 

 geologists as having so often used and profited by their works during 

 my travels in Great Britain. I now incur a new debt to them, as 

 the Bigsby Medal conferred upon me is given, according to the 

 donor's bequest, ' to those not too old for further work.' I am thus 

 mightily stimulated to work for the performance of my duty ; I will 

 endeavour to discharge it and to become worthy of so high an en- 

 couragement." 



Award oe the Wollaston Donation Fund. 



In handing to Prof. J. W. Jedd, F.R.S., Sec. G.S., the balance of 

 the Wollaston Donation Fund for transmission to Dr. Ramsay H. 

 Traqeair, F.G.S., the President said : — 



Professor Jedd, — 



In handing to you, to be forwarded to Dr. Traquair, the balance 

 of the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation Fund, I have to request 

 that you will inform him of the feeling of the Council, that it is 

 rarely that they can have the opportunity of awarding this fund to 

 a more able and accomplished naturalist than himself. His long- 

 continued researches upon the Ganoid Fishes of the Carboniferous 

 formation have rendered his name eminent in this department of 

 Palaeontology. As an accomplished anatomist and zoologist, we 

 must have every confidence that his treatment of these Vertebrates in 

 the memoir which he is contributing to the publications of the 

 Palseontographical Society will be of the most careful and judicious 

 description, whilst the value of this and his other works is vastly 

 enhanced by the beautiful figures with which he illustrates them. 

 Under these circumstances it affords me much pleasure to place in 

 your hands, for transmission to Dr. Traquair, the balance of the 

 Wollaston Fund, which I hope he will receive as some recognition 

 on the part of the Society of the value of his researches, and, at the 

 same time, as a small aid to him in further prosecuting them. 



Prof. Jedd, in reply, read the following communication, received 

 from Dr. Traqeair — 



" Mr. President,-— 

 " Permit me cordially to thank the Geological Society for the 



