Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19st of February, 1841 : 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:
1841
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Credit: Address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 19st of February, 1841 : 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 1841. [Extracted from the Proceedings of the Geological Society, Feb. 1841.] The Wollaston Medal for this year having been awarded to M. Adolphe Brongniart, Dr. Buckland, on placing it in the hands of Mr. De la Beche, the Foreign Secretary of the Society, said; Mr. De la Beche, It is my pleasing duty to place in your hands, as Foreign Secre- tary of the Geological Society of London, the Gold Medal, which the President and Council have awarded to one of our Foreign Mem- bers, M. Adolphe Brongniart, Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology in the Museum of Natural History at Paris, and Mem- ber of the Institute of France, for his discoveries and publications in Fossil Botany. The name of Brongniart has been honourably associated with the progress of Mineralogy and Geology since the beginning of the present century; and M. Alexandre Brongniart, the colleague of Cuvier in his investigation and description of the environs of Paris, and the author of many other publications of pre-eminent merit and utility in Mineralogy, Geology and Palaeontology, has had no small share in directing and advancing the great progress in knowledge of the physical history of the earth, which has been made during the age in which we live. The son of this distinguished father ap- pears before us, on the present occasion, with more than hereditary claims upon our gratitude, for his illustrations of Flora of the ancient