Silver Medal (Zoological Society of London)

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]

## Winners (pre-1964)

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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 [de]
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

## Winners (post-1964)

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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

## References

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1. ^ "Awards". Zoological Society of London.
2. ^ "P D Medallions: 1826 - Zoological Society of London Silver Prize Award". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
3. ^ a b c d "Silver Medal Winners Complete List" (PDF). Zoological Society of London.
4. ^ "Recipients of the Silver Medal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
5. ^ "ZSL – Recipients of the Silver Medal" (PDF). Zoological Society of London. Retrieved 25 June 2015.