The Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London is "Awarded to a Fellow of the Society or any other person for contributions to the understanding and appreciation of zoology, including such activities as public education in natural history, and wildlife conservation."[1] It was first awarded in 1847.[2]
Year | Recipient[3] |
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1847 | Roderick Murchison & M Dalmatoff |
1859 | Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning & William Hay & Henry Ramsey & Brian Houghton Hodgson & H G Keene & Rajendra Mullick & Richard Green & William Dougal Christie |
1860 | George Grey & Gerald Chetwynd-Talbot |
1862 | George Bennett |
1869 | Rutherford Alcock |
1872 | A D Bartlett |
1875 | H H Seyyid Barghash bin Said |
1877 | Robert Hudson |
1878 | Frederick Richard Pollock |
1882 | John Dean Caton |
1884 | George H R Fisk |
1887 | The Maharajah of Kuch-Bechar |
1889 | Edward Dalzel Dickson |
1891 | Ursula Edmondston & Robert Thomas Charles Scott |
1893 | Donald Cameron of Lochiel & John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus |
1894 | Henry Hamilton Johnston |
1897 | Alexander Whyte |
1900 | John Ernest Matcham |
1902 | Edmund William Harper |
1904 | Arthur Thomson |
1907 | Adam White Guthrie |
1908 | David Seth-Smith & William Ingram |
1909 | Charles Dunell Rudd & Richard Bowen Woosnam |
1910 | Carl Hagenbeck |
1912 | J Stevenson Hamilton |
1914 | R E Drake-Brockman & Albert Pam & W K Pomeroy & H G F Spurrell |
1917 | Wilfred A Smithers |
1921 | John Young & Cecil H. Armitage |
1926 | Henry Courtney Brocklehurst |
1931 | A St Alban Smith |
1937 | E B Carter |
1938 | Gerald Cope Upstone |
1942 | Alfred Ezra & Geoffrey Marr Vevers |
1945 | Dorothy Pinto-Leite |
1946 | William Chippendale |
1952 | Annie Porter |
1953 | Herbet F Vinall |
1955 | John Withers Lester |
1958 | Joao de Freitas Martins |
In 1964, the criteria for the Silver Medal were changed, split into 2 categories. Category 1 is awarded to individuals for Curation or distinguished service to the Society, whilst Category 2 is awarded to fellows who have provided a significant contribution to the field of zoology, including in both wildlife conservation and public education of natural history.[3]
Year | Category 1 [3] | Category 2 [3] |
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1964 | George Burden Stratton | Lord Hurcomb |
1965 | David Attenborough | |
1966 | Aubrey Buxton | |
1968 | James Fisher | |
1969 | F A P Stengelhofen | |
1973 | A J E Cave & Eirwen M Owen & L G Goodwin | |
1974 | Eric Hosking | |
1975 | Gerald H Thompson | |
1983 | Stephen Jay Gould | |
1984 | E H Ashton | |
1985 | L. Harrison Matthews | |
1988 | Richard Dawkins | |
1991 | Owen C. Chamberlain | Jane Goodall |
1993 | Jonathan Kingdon | |
1997 | George B. Rabb | |
1999 | Michael Brambell | |
2003 | Peter Olney | Aubrey Manning |
2004 | John Chapple | |
2005 | Alastair Fothergill | |
2007 | Scottish Ornithologists Club | |
2008 | Rosie Trevelyan | |
2009 | David Macdonald[4] | |
2010 | Michael McCarthy[5] | |
2011 | Martin Fisher | |
2012 | Helen Roy | |
2013 | Tim Birkhead | |
2014 | Darren Mann | |
2015 | Nathalie Pettorelli
Seirian Sumner | |
2016 | Richard Fortey | |
2017 | Steve Jones | |
2018 | James Barnett |
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver Medal (Zoological Society of London).
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