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2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal
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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…
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- … < Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial …
- … the Society in 1662. In a speech of thanks on receiving the medal in 1894, Huxley affirmed his …
- … to the University a ‘special copy’ of the Darwin medal, ‘struck in gold’. In making the presentation …
- … had been Secretary of the Royal Society at the time when the medal was commissioned from Allan Wyon …
- … Allan Wyon was one of a large family dynasty of medal and seal designers and die engravers of German …
- … be mechanically scaled down to the required size of the medal, avoiding the slow labour of engraving …
- … however, preclude artistry or subtle meanings. Wyon’s medal has a profile portrait of Darwin on the …
- … physical location one example of the medal is at Down House, together with the wax model. …
- … to 1890- 10-31. medium and material struck medal, signed by Wyon on both sides. The …
- … of the Royal Society’, no. 56, ‘Royal Society, Darwin medal . . . ‘struck in silver or bronze’. ‘The …
- … Darwin corresponding to the portrayal in the Royal Society medal, but measuring 15cm, and described …
2.26 Linnean Society medal
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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…
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- … to mark the jubilee by commissioning a ‘Darwin-Wallace medal’, which was designed and modelled by …
- … University Museum, successfully proposed that ‘the Darwin Medal be permanent and awarded at stated …
- … among these recipients was Wallace himself, who received his medal (uniquely cast in gold) at a …
- … his features’ together with those of Darwin on the medal. This was, indeed, a pairing of the two men …
- … Linnean Society council was anxious that the Darwin-Wallace medal should be respected as an …
- … and the other illustrations were portraits of the seven 1908 medal-winners, mainly taken from …
- … metal dies. Bowcher’s design for the Linnean Society’s medal has a lively head-and-shoulders …
- … three-quarter view, but Darwin is nearer to a profile. The medal is inscribed round the rim on both …
- … Darwin from a photograph by his son, from which the Darwin-medal portrait was principally modelled’. …
- … Darwin , 1887. ‘Plaster casts from the dies of the medal, by Mr. F. Bowcher’ were also put on show …
- … actually closer to that created by Wyon in the Royal Society medal. An undated plaque in the …
- … (WE.2358-2016) reproduces the design of Bowcher’s medal, but is inscribed simply ‘DARWIN’. …
- … AC Box 19. The Linnean Society also holds the dies for the medal – location code AC Box 10. The …
- … and material medals cast in silver or bronze. (Wallace’s gold medal still belongs to his …
- … p. 10, no. 19. George Beccaloni, ‘The Darwin-Wallace medal, the Alfred Russel Wallace website’, …
2.7 Joseph Moore, Midland Union medal
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< Back to Introduction The Midland Union was an association of natural history societies and field clubs across the Midland counties, intended to facilitate – especially through its journal The Midland Naturalist – ‘the interchange of ideas’ and…
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- … could include, if he chose, a specially designed ‘Darwin medal’ in either gold or bronze. The …
- … his death in 1882, suggested that the initiation of the medal in 1880 had also been intended as a …
- … of condescension. Darwin wrote, ‘their wish to name the medal after me is a very great honour, which …
- … of happiness throughout life’.The design of the Darwin medal was appropriately entrusted to the …
- … reverse an inscription runs round the edge: ‘The Darwin medal founded by the Midland Union of …
- … coral. As an example, one surviving but unlocated medal, awarded for ‘Botany’ in 1888, went to James …
- … to 1880-12-31 medium and material the medal was cast in either gold or bronze …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … me for days afterwards very unwell’. The Copley medal at last November and December …
- … sciences & all the world is reckoned a great honour’; the gold medal was considered the greatest …
- … that he was mostly pleased to have been awarded the Copley Medal because it indicated that ‘Natural …
- … letter of congratulation for the award of the Copley Medal, and requested Darwin’s photograph, but …
- … ). When Hugh Falconer noted that the award of the Copley Medal to Darwin at the end of 1864 …
- … the emotions in man and animals (1872). The Copley medal controversy After the award …
- … had earlier revealed his awareness that a Royal Society medal could not be easily won when he …
- … Royal Society on 30 November, when the award of the Copley Medal to Darwin was announced. Sabine’s …
- … make him seriously ill. In Darwin’s absence, the Copley Medal was received by George Busk and …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
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< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
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- … model of 1869, but from the Royal Society’s Darwin medal, which was cast in gold and also in other …
- … of the Darwin family, possessed a copy of the Royal Society medal, but the circumstances surrounding …
- … Cambridge University Press, 1909), p. 24, no. 124, ‘Darwin medal of the Royal Society lent by …
- … See also catalogue entry for the Royal Society Darwin medal. …
Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007)
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Founding editor, Darwin Correspondence Project Fred, as he was known to all who worked with him, first conceived of a project to publish all of Darwin’s correspondence in 1974 on his retirement as President of the American Council of Learned Societies,…
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- … was one of the grounds for the award of the Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal of the American Philsophical …
- … Awarded the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement …
- … Philosphical Society, 2000 Awarded Founder’s Medal of the Society for the History of Natural …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … a Bit of thin glass over the object (without any cell) & gold size all round the rough edge …
- … the Cirripedia was soon rewarded, for he received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London in …
- … 1853] ), Hooker wrote: ‘The RS. have voted you the Royal Medal for Natural Science— All along of …
