ANNIVERSARY MEETING LYELL FUND. 



35 



his gratitude, from the hands of an old teacher, to whose instructions 

 he was indebted for the habits of minute and careful investigation 

 inculcated in his lectures. 



Award of the Lyell Geological Fund. 



In presenting to G. E. Vine, Esq., one moiety of the balance of 

 the proceeds of the Lyell Donation Fund, the President addressed 

 him as follows : — 



Mr. Vine, — 



A moiety of the balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Geological 

 Fund has been awarded to you by the Council of the Geological 

 Society. In making this award the Council were actuated in part 

 by the wish to express their sense of the value of your researches 

 upon the fossil Bryozoa of the Palaeozoic rocks, as evinced especially 

 by your published writings on the Diastoporidse, an exceedingly 

 difficult group, and in part by their desire to assist you in the 

 further prosecution of your investigations. I have much pleasure 

 in handing to you this small testimony of the appreciation of the 

 Council. 



Mr. Vine, in reply, said : — 

 Mr. President, — 



I receive through you this token of recognition, on the part of the 

 Council, of my humble labours, with mingled feelings of pleasure 

 and pride. I cannot, at present, understand the reason why I 

 should be selected as one of the recipients of the Lyell Fund. It 

 cannot be for what I have done for science ; for, as yet, my name is 

 young ; it must be that, having looked upon my labours with favour, 

 the Council desires to stimulate me to further exertions. If such be 

 the motive, I shall do my utmost to fulfil the higher promise which 

 my hitherto crude efforts have awakened. When, some years ago, I 

 began to study the Carboniferous Polyzoa, I wrote to Prof. Duncan, 

 F.E.S., asking for certain information respecting these Polyzoa ; he 

 wrote me back word saying that he did not know much about the 

 species himself, and he did not think that there were many men in 

 England who did ; but he counselled me to go to work and find out 

 for myself, and then he and others would be glad to know. Accept- 

 ing this advice, I set to work, with results which you and the 

 Council so kindly acknowledge to-day by this award. 



From your hands, Mr. President, I feel also proud in accepting 

 the award. Many years ago, when poor and unknown, I sought 

 information on this and other things from the cases of the Museum 

 of Practical Geology. On that occasion you helped me by word and 

 deed to name my private series of fossils — a kindness on your part 

 that I never have forgotten or shall forget. 



