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THE ORCHID WORLD. 
THE ORCHID MEDALS OF THE ROYAL 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
BY the kindness of the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society we are able to give 
photographic reproductions of the 
different medals which are awarded in con- 
nection with orchids, and portraits of Sir 
Joseph Banks and Dr. Lindley, in whose 
honour two were struck 
The First Medal struck by the Society. 181 I. 
The first medal ever struck by the Society 
was in i8ii, in which year it was awarded 
to Sir Joseph Banks for his unremitted and 
important services to the Society from its 
first institution. It was probably this medal 
which was awarded on June i, 1813, to ]\Ir. 
John W'lJmot, of 
I s 1 e w o r t h, for 
his account of 
the method of 
destroying slugs 
in gardens, 
which he read 
before the 
Society on Ma\- 
12, I 8 I 2, in 
which he stated, 
"To exterminate 
these nocturnal The Lindley 
The Banksian Medal, 1820. 
depredators has been for man}' x-ea/s my 
study." 
Sir Josejjh Banks was among those present 
who, on the 7th of ]\Iarch, 1804, in a room 
1S> 
The Flora Medal, 1836. 
in the house of Mr. Hatchard, in Piccadilly, 
first organised the Horticultural Society. He 
continued as its best protector and friend 
until his death 
in 1820, when 
the Banksian 
]\I e d a 1 was 
founded in his 
memor)-. By a 
su bs c rip t ion 
among the 
Fellows of the 
Society, an ex- 
cellent portrait 
of Sir Joseph 
Medal, 1866. was placed in 
