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PROCEEDINGS OE THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



To the Fellows of the Geological Society I also tender my thanks 

 for the manner (judging by the discussions which have followed the 

 reading of my papers) in which they have received my criticisms on 

 a most difficult group of fossils. I may differ from many of you in 

 the future, hut I shall hope to do so in such a manner as to show 

 that I do not forget that we are fellow-students and at the same 

 time gentlemen. 



The President then handed to Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.P.S., F.G.S., 

 for transmission to Dr. Anton Fritsch, of Prague, the second moiety 

 of the Lyell Donation Fund, and said : — 



Professor Seeley, — 



The Council has awarded a portion of the Lyell Geological Fund 

 to Dr. Anton Fritsch, Professor of Zoology in the University of 

 Prague, in recognition of his valuable contributions to palaeontology. 

 Dr. Fritsch is an accomplished zoologist, who has enriched his 

 studies of many groups of fossils, invertebrate and vertebrate, with 

 admirable knowledge of existing life. During the last thirty years 

 Dr. Fritsch has published about one hundred and twenty memoirs, 

 many of which relate to palaeontology and geology. Besides scattered 

 papers on Eozoon, Callianassa, and other subjects connected with the 

 fossil fauna of Bohemia, Dr. Fritsch has also published some standard 

 works monographing the fossils of his native land. These comprise 

 memoirs on the Cretaceous Cephalopods (1872), the Cretaceous Rep- 

 tiles and Fish (1878), and his great work on the Fauna of the Per- 

 mian Rocks (still in progress), of which two volumes, devoted to Am- 

 phibia, have been issued. These volumes are excellent examples of 

 descriptive work, illustrated worthily, and this award is especially 

 intended to mark the sympathy of the Council with Dr. Fritsch in 

 his endeavours to adequately make known the Permian fauna, and 

 in the hope that the fund may assist him in completing a work which 

 has already taken high rank among palaeontological monographs. 



Prof. Seeley, in reply, said : — 



Mr. President, — 



Dr. Fritsch will, I believe, appreciate the honour of the award 

 which you have made, no less than the words in which you have ex- 

 pressed the esteem in which his work is held in this country. I 

 have seen the materials upon which his studies of the Amphibia are 

 founded, and doubt whether any more important work has been 

 done in palaeontology during the past year, or whether it could have 

 been accomplished at all by any one less skilled in the methods of 

 zoology than Dr. Fritsch. His enthusiasm for research has given 

 to his works a wealth of illustration that will help materially in the 

 advance of knowledge, while by electrotyping the specimens he has 

 rendered them easily available for study by all anatomists. I shall 

 have great pleasure, Mr. President, in informing Dr Fritsch of the 

 kindly way in which your award has been received by the Society. 



