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" 4. Any Biologist shall be eligible to receive the Medal who is uot 

 at the time a Member of the Council.- 



" 5. The pel-sou to whom the Medal is to be preseuted shall be 

 selected by the Council. 



" 6. The Medal shall be preseuted to the person to whom it is 

 awarded, or hisrepresentative, by the President at the Auuiversary 

 Meeting, aud the President, in presenting the same, shall specify 

 the grounds on which the Medal has been awarded. 



" This is uot the first occasion ou wliich the question of a Medal 

 has been considered by the Council and Fellows of the Society. 

 Edward Eudge, who was elected a Fellow in 1S02, and who for 

 forty-four years thereafter took a warm interest in its welfare, 

 bequeathed to us the sum of £200 to found a Grold Medal to be 

 called ' The Linneau Medal,' to be given to the Fellow who should 

 contribute the best memoir in each volume of the Transactions 

 after his decease. The Council carefully considered the matter, 

 and at a meeting convened for the purpose on the 8th of January, 

 IStty, the Society adopted the recommendation of the Council to 

 decline the bequest, because the terms under which it required to 

 be administered would, in all probability, be injurious to the best 

 interests of the Society. 



" Now, with the cordial approval of every one, a medal has been 

 established on terms which it is believed cau reflect only honour 

 on the recipient and on the donor. The occasion of the foundation 

 of the medal being the centenary of the Society, it has been re- 

 solved that two medals be given, the one to a botanist, the other 

 to a zoologist, representing the two departments of biology, the 

 proper field of the Society's work. It has been a matter of not 

 a little anxiety to the Council that, in selecting the first recipients 

 of the Medal, they should choose men not only worthy in them- 

 selves to receive this honour, but men so universally esteemed 

 for their scientific labours that tlieir choice would testify to the 

 world the great importance attached by the Liuuean Society to 

 the award of the Linneau Medal. 1 have the great satisfaction 

 of anuouncing that as a botanist the Council have unanimously 

 selected Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker for the one Medal, and as a 

 zoologist, with the same unanimity. Sir Richard Owen for the 

 other Medal." 



The President presented the Linneau Medal to Sir Kichard 

 Owen, addressing him as follows : — 



'' It is a great satisfaction to me that I should be the instrument 

 on behalf of the Linneau Society of placing in your hands this 

 Linneau Medal, which has been awarded to you by the Council of 

 the Society in recognition of your distinguished services to 

 Zoology. 



" These services to science have occupied a long aud Dusy life, 

 aud are so universally acknowledged that I am happily relieved 



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