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His classic papers on the Archaean rhyolites of Shropshire and the 

 Carboniferous dolerites of various parts of this country furnish the 

 clearest evidence of the truth of this principle, and in several 

 thoughtful and logical essays he has very ably enforced it. On a 

 great variety of other questions connected with Petrology his re- 

 searches have added largety to our knowledge ; and the fine collec 

 tion of rock-sections now in the IN ational Museum, which were made 

 by his own hands, bear striking testimony to his industry and skill. 



Prof. Bonnet, in reply, expressed his regret that Mr. Airport was 

 unable to be present to receive this Medal from the hands of the 

 President, but said that he found some consolation in the fact that he 

 had thus an opportunity of most heartily endorsing what had been 

 said by the President as to the great value of Mr. Airport's own 

 work, and of the kind assistance which he was always so ready to 

 afford to his fellow-labourers in the field of Petrology, Prof. Bonney 

 added that he should best thank the Society by reading to them a 

 letter received from Mr. Airport, in which that gentleman wrote as 

 follows : — 



" I much regret to inform you that I shall be unable to attend 

 the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Societj' in consequence 

 of the very unsatisfactory state of my health. I venture, therefore, 

 to request that you will kindly express to the Council my very 

 grateful sense of the honour they have conferred upon me by the 

 award of the Lyell Medal. 



" It is, I assure you, most gratifying to me that the name of Sir 

 Charles Lyell should be associated with this award ; for I have not 

 only ever regarded his character and scientific method with the 

 greatest admiration, but it is undoubtedly to the study of his works 

 that I am chiefly indebted for what little knowledge I possess of 

 the principles of geological science." 



Award oe the Lyell Geological Fund. 



The President next presented the Balance of the Proceeds of the 

 Lyell Geological Fund to the Eev. 0. Fisher,M.A., F.G.S., andsaid : — 



Mr. Fisher, — 



The Council of the Geological Society has awarded to you the 

 balance of the Lyell Fund, in recognition of your great and long- 

 continued services to our science. Nearly forty years ago you com- 

 menced your well-known stratigraphical investigations among the 

 Newer Jurassics of Dorsetshire and the Older Tertiaries of the Isle 

 of Wight, your attention being subsequently directed to the Pliocene 

 and Post-Tertiary beds of East Anglia. At a very early period in 

 your career a predilection for the great problems of Physical Geo- 

 logy began to manifest itself • and for dealing with such problems 



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