Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland.

  • Buckland, William, 1784-1856.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 21st of February, 1840 : and the announcement of the award of the Wollaston medal and donation fund for the same year / by the Rev. Professor Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AWARD OF THE WOLLASTON MEDAL AND DONATION FUND FOR 1840. (Extracted from the Proceedings of the Geological Society, Feb. 1840.) The Wollaston Medal having been awarded to Prof. Dumont, of Liege, for his Memoir, Map, and Sections on the Geological Consti- tution of the Province of Liege, published in 1832 ; and one year’s interest of the Wollaston Fund to Mr. James De Carle Sowerby, in order to facilitate the continuation of his researches in Mineral Con- chology ; Dr. Buckland, on presenting the Medal to Dr. Fitton, who had been requested by M. Dumont to receive it on his behalf, said :— Dr. Fitton, I am highly gratified that it has become my duty on the present occasion, to commit to your care as the Representative of our common friend, Professor Dumont, the Wollaston Gold Medal, which has been awarded to him by the Council of this Society for his Me- moir on the Geological Constitution of the province of Liege pub- lished at Brussels in 1832. The grounds of our tardy recognition in 1840, of the merits of a work published so long as eight years ago, are the same that in 1830, prompted the Judges appointed by the Academy of Brussels, to select this Memoir as most worthy of the Prize then proposed by that Academy, for the best Geological description of the province which has formed the subject of M. Dumont’s successful labours. In the work thus doubly crowned, the Author has described the inineralogical and zoological characters of the rocks which occupy