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Reports and Proceedings — 
In handing the balance of thc proceeds of the Lyell Fund to tlie Rev. Thomas 
Wiltshire, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., fov transmission to Mr. William Pengelly, F.R.S., 
F.G.S., the President said : — 
Mr. Wiltshire, — The Council of the Society have awarded to Mr. Pengelly the 
balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Fund, I may say unanimously, as an evidence of 
their thorough apprcciation of his long and successful labours in the Geology of 
Devonshire, and his untiring devotion to the great task of extending scientific know- 
lcdge relating to the antiquity of man. By his systematic survey and labour in 
Kent’s Cavern, espeeially, he has not only excited attention on this important sul>ject, 
but has claborated facts which will last as long as Science. Thanks to his great 
energy and perseverance, he has kcpt up a love for geological Science in his county ; 
and this has been mainly due to the results of his work among the rocks of Devon- 
shire. In presenting this fund to you for transmission to Mr. Pengelly, I feel that 
the good opinion which his fellow-geologists have of him and his work cannot be 
sufliciently expressed by me; but I trust that this recognition of his Services to 
Science will be feit by him as a slight reward for many years’ arduous devotion to 
Geology. 
Mr. Wiltshire replied: — Mr. President,— It is a subject of regret to Mr. Pengelly 
that he is prevented by public engagements from receiving to-day in person the 
award of the Lyell Trust Fund. Mr. Pengelly, while deputing me to be his repre- 
sentative, has begged me to convey to the Society his high appreciation of the lionour 
conferred upon him. The award, he writes, seems to bring him once more into 
communion with the spirit of his old friend the founder of the trust, and will be an 
additional motive for still following up those investigations in Kent’s Cavern and in 
the county of Devonshire which so long were approved of by the late Sir Charles 
Lyell. 
The President then handed the Bigsby Medal to Mr. Hulke, F.R.S., F.G.S., for 
transmission to Prof. 0. C. Marsh, F.G.S., and addressed him as follows : — 
Mr. Hulke, — The Council of this Society have awarded the Bigsby Medal to 
Prof. 0. C. Marsh, F.G.S., of Yale College, Connecticut, U.S., and I trust that in 
forwarding this testimony of our admiration of his abilities and work, you will 
explain to him that, being a Fellow of the Society, we cannot enrol him amongst 
our Foreign Correspondents and Members, but that we can öfter him the first medal 
given by one who has laboured long and successfully in the field of American Geology. 
The Medal is given in recognition of thc great Services which Prof. Marsh has 
rendered to the paheontology of the Vertebrata. He has distinguished himself by 
studying the fossil remains of nearly every great group of the Vertebrata from the 
Palaiozoic, Cretaceous, and Cainozoic strata of the New World. The field of his 
research has been immense, but it has been verycorrect; and his descriptive and 
classificatory palaeontological work indioates his eifective grasp of anatomical details, 
and his great power as a comparative osteologist. 
Prof. Marsh's early work was upon an Enaliosaurian from the Coal-formation of 
Nova Scotia; but this limited field of vertebrate research was soon left for the fossils 
of the wonderful country in the Western territories of the United States. The Cre- 
taceous series yielded the remarkable fossil birds, whose examination has been due to 
Professor Marsh ; he added to the knowledge of the Pythonomorpha from the same 
series by distinguishing the pelvic girdle and the hind limbs. The Pterodactyles 
have been his especial study, as have also the Mosasaurs of New Jersey and the 
Tylosauri and Lentosauri of Kansas. The fossil fish of the Niobrara group have 
been in part wörked out by him. Interesting and important as have been these 
researches in the lower vertebrates, they are surpassed by Prof. Marsh's pakcon- 
tological contributions regarding the Mammalia of the post-Cretaceous ages. He 
has described some of the Oreodontidae, those interesting Artiodactyles of the Miocene 
of Oregon ; and he has illusti ated and contributed to our knowledge of the Perisso- 
dactyles of the so-called Eoeene of the Western territories of his country, the genera 
Pa/aosyops, Limno/iyiis, Lophiodon, Hyrachyus, and Limnotherium being espeeially 
studied. His researches amongst the Dinoceratidm are familiär to every geologist, 
and most anatomists will admire his labours amongst the fossil Rodentia. Prof. 
Marsh, moreover, has paid great attention to and described fossil species of (,’rocodilia, 
Lacertilia, and Glyptosauria, from the same series of strata, whose stratigraphical 
Position is still a matter of debute. I trust that you will, as a brother palmontologist 
labouring somewhat in the same field, express to Prof. Marsh the appreciation we all 
have of his interesting and valuable contributions to our science. 
