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Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Gbemie und verwandter 
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ObservatioDs Meteorologiques faites a Nijne-Tagnilsk (Monts 
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Monday^ 2d April 1866. 
Sir DAVID BEEWSTEK, President, in the Chair. 
The President, in delivering the Neill Medal to Professor A. C. 
Eamsay, LL.D., F.K.S., &c., made the following remarks 
In adjudicating the Neill Prize for the triennial period from 
1862 to 1865, the Council of the Koyal Society could not overlook 
the high claims of our eminent countryman, Mr Andrew Eamsay, 
Professor of Greology in the Grovernment School of Mines, and local 
Director of the Greological Survey of Gi-reat Britain. 
Mr Eamsay’s geological studies commenced with a survey of the 
Island of Arran. After investigating the structure and the rela- 
tions of the rocks of that interesting island, he embodied the re- 
sults of his researches in a beautifully executed model, which we 
had the pleasure of seeing at the meeting of the British Associa- 
tion at Grlasgow in 1840. This model, which was afterwards 
published on the scale of two inches to the mile, attracted the 
particular attention of Sir Henry De La Beche, the Director- 
Greneral of the Greological Survey ; and in the following year Mr 
Eamsay was appointed one of the surveyors who were then at work 
in the county of Pembroke. 
In 1845, when the Survey was remodelled, the important office 
of local Director for Gtreat Britain was cooferred upon Mr Eamsay, 
