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ANNIVERSARY  MEETING — LYELL  EUND. 
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Here  I  might  sit  down,  but  I  cannot  forbear  from  expressing  my 
personal  gratification  at  being  chosen  to  represent  so  earnest  and 
conscientious  a  worker.  It  brings  me  a  further  gratification.  As 
life  is  in  its  afternoon  we  become  conscious,  often  painfully,  that 
we  have  failed  in  fulfilling  our  earlier  ideals.  My  own  work  has 
been  smaller  in  quantity  and  inferior  in  quality  to  what  I  had 
hoped,  but,  when  one  former  pupil  receives  an  Award  and  another  a 
Medal,  when  the  Secretaries  designated  for  the  coming  year  are  two 
other  old  pupils,  one  feels  that  one  has  not  wholly  laboured  in  vain. 
The  President  then  presented  the  other  half  of  the  Balance  of  the 
Proceeds  of  the  Lyell  Geological  Pund  to  Mr.  Alfred  IN’.  Leeds, 
addressing  him  as  follows : — 
Mr.  Leeds, — 
The  Council  have  awarded  to  you  the  second  moiety  of  the  Balance 
of  the  Proceeds  of  the  Lyell  Geological  Pund,  in  appreciation  of  your 
long-continued  and  successful  endeavours  to  collect  and  reconstruct 
the  fossil  Yertebrata  of  the  Oxford  Clay  of  the  neighbourhood  of 
Peterborough.  In  making  this  Award  the  Council  bear  in  mind  the 
readiness  which  you  have  at  all  times  shown  to  place  the  materials  in 
your  possession  at  the  service  of  palaeontologists  desirous  of  availing 
themselves  of  your  treasures.  The  Pund  now  awarded,  besides  being 
a  recognition  of  past  services,  may  help  to  encourage  you  to  work 
in  the  same  direction. 
Mr.  Leeds,  in  reply,  said  : — 
Mr.  President, — 
I11  returning  thanks  to  yourself  and  the  Council  for  this  Award,  I 
must  say  how  astonished  and  pleased  I  was  at  so  unexpected  a  re¬ 
cognition.  It  is  more  than  twenty  years  since  my  brother  (who  now 
resides  in  Hew  Zealand)  and  I  began  to  collect  fossils  from  the 
Oxford  Clay.  The  late  Prof.  Phillips,  of  Oxford,  was  the  first 
geologist  to  describe  some  of  our  specimens,  which  are  also  figured 
in  his  4  Geology  of  Oxford.’  In  1874  Prof.  Seeley  described  the 
remains  of  Murcenosciurus ,  and  since  then  he,  Mr.  J.  W.  Hulke, 
Mr.  B>.  Lydekker,  and  Mr.  A.  Smith  Woodward  have  written 
many  papers  for  your  Society  upon  other  specimens  of  Saurians 
and  Pishes  which  we  had  collected.  Prom  all  these  friends,  and 
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