BANKSIAN MEDAL. 



In order to encourage the Exhibitions of various productions of 

 the Garden at the General Meetings of the Society, and to distin- 

 guish the Exhibitors of articles of excellence, merit, or novelty, the 

 Council have deemed it expedient to establish a class of Medals of 

 a smaller size than the original Medal of the Society. 



This resolution having been adopted at the period when the 

 country was deploring the death of the late Sir Joseph Banks, it 

 was determined to place his Profile on the obverse of the Medal ; 

 and to call it the Banksian Medal. The Council are well 

 aware that the merits of Sir Joseph Banks, and the services 

 which, through the whole course of his life, he rendered to man- 

 kind are so unparalleled, that they will live in the recollection of 

 grateful posterity without the aid" of artificial records ; but they are 

 so deeply sensible of the peculiar kindness which the Society, in its 

 infancy, received from his fostering hand, that they gladly embraced 

 the opportunity thus afforded them of recording their feelings 

 towards his memory. 



The larger Medal will still continue to be given, as directed by 

 the laws of the Society, for every such matter or circumstance as 

 shall appear to the Council so essentially to advance the objects of 

 the Society as to deserve the distinction ; whilst the Banksian 

 Medal will be exclusively confined to rewarding the Exhibitors of 

 objects transmitted or brought to the General Meetings of the 

 Society. They will be adjudged by the Council as soon as possible 

 after each General Meeting. The Names of the persons receiving 

 the Medals will be placed on a Tablet in the Meeting Room of 

 the Society, as they are awarded, until the succeeding anniversary, 



