MEDALS. 5 J 



of the Society, a Medal, to be called the " Linnean Medal," be 

 founded under the following regulations : — 



1. The Medal shall be of gold, and costing not less 



than <£14. 



2. The Medal shall have on the obverse the head of 



Linnfeus, modelled from the bust in the Library [by 

 Lauritz Terpager Mailing Prior, b. 1840, d. 1879J, 

 and on the reverse the arms of the Society with the 

 name of the recipient. 



3. The Medal shall be given in the present year tu a 



Botanist and a Zoologist, and in future years to a 

 Botanist and a Zoologist alternately, commencing with 

 a Botanist. 



4. Any Biologist shall be eligible to receive the Medal 



who is not at the time a Member of the Coiuicil. 



5. The person to whom the Medal is to be presented shall 



be selected by the Council. 



6. The Medal shall be presented to the person to whom it 



is awarded, or his representative, by the President at 

 the Anniversary Meeting, and the President, in 

 presenting the same, shall specify the grounds on 

 which the Medal has been awarded.' 



" This is not the first occasion on which the question of a 

 Medal has been considered by the Council and Fellows of the 

 Society. Edward Eudge, who was elected a Pellow in 1802, and 

 who for forty-four years thereafter took a warm interest in 

 its welfare, bequeathed to us the sum of ^200 to found a 

 Gold Medal to be called ' The Linnean Medal,' to be given 

 to the Fellow who should contribute the best memoir in each 

 volume of the Transactions after bis decease. The Council 

 carefully considered the matter, and at a meeting convened for 

 the purpose on the Sth of January, 1847, 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 can 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 

 resolved 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 themselves to receive this honour, but men so universally 

 esteemed for their scientific labours that their choice would 

 testify to the world the great importance attached by the 



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