The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE
The Reports
of the Council and of the Treasurer were
adopted on the motion of the President, seconded by
Mr. A. A. Banes.
The President then presented the Society's Medal to
Mr. G. F. Hill, and addressed him as follows :
MR. HILL, It is with peculiar pleasure that I am able to
hand to you to-day the Medal of this Society, which sees in
you, as Keeper of the Medal Room, a worthy successor of
our earlier medallists, Prof. Stuart Poole, Dr. Head, and
Mr. Grueber, who occupied the same position.
The distinc-
tion that you early gained in my own University you have
maintained not only in the field of numismatics, but through-
out a much wider range, embracing Classical Archaeology
on one side, and on the other its Italian Renaissance. That
you should receive to-day all that our Society has to offer, will
be the more satisfactory to your friends, who have long waited
in vain to see conferred on you
those outward marks of
recognition on the part of Academic bodies in this country
which foreign arbiters have been less slow to offer.
To the Society itself you have done yeoman service not
only as Editor, but in many capacities, and not only as the
author of valuable papers, but as a contributor of many
notes and reviews involving labours of a more altruistic
nature. Your capacity for work, indeed, we all recognize
as inexhaustible, and it has benefited not only ourselves, but
the sister Society of Hellenic Studies, whose Journal you so
ably edited for many years. In your own Department your
labours have been specially fruitful, and five large volumes
of the Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum have
been due to your combined industry and acumen.
The enterprise which has carried through the work in this
particular series required quite exceptional qualities.
It was
only made possible by constant reference to the most recent
results of geographical or archaeological exploration, and it