380 RICHARD OWEN xxn 



Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin conferred upon 

 him their honorary degrees, and he was an honorary or 

 corresponding member of nearly every important scientific 

 society in the world. The Geological Society presented him 

 with the Wollaston Medal in 1838, and the Koyal College of 

 Surgeons with its Honorary Gold Medal in 1883. He was 

 the first to receive the gold medal established by the Linnean 

 Society at the centenary meeting of that body in 1888. The 

 Eoyal Society, of which he became a Fellow in December 

 1834, and on the Council of which he served for five separate 

 periods, awarded him one of the Eoyal Medals in 1846, and 

 the Copley Medal in 1851. 



