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Some time after Mr. Edwards had been appoints 
ed library keeper to the Royal College of Phyficians-* 
he was, on St. Andrews- 6 .ay in the year 1750, pre-» 
fen ted with an honorary compliment by the prefer 
dent and council of the Royal Society, with the gold 
medal, the donation of Sir Godfrey Copley, Bart, 
annually given, on that, day to the author of any new 
difeovery in art or nature, in confederation of his Na* 
tural Hiftory juft then compleated, A copy of this 
medal he had afterwards engraved and placed under 
the general title in the firft volume of his Hiftory 
H e was a few years afterwards defied Fellow of the 
Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries Lon-* 
don , and alfo a member of many of the academies of 
feiences and learning in different parts of Europe. In 
compliment to thefe honorary diftinclions from fuclv 
learned bodies, he prefented elegant coloured co¬ 
pies of all his works, to the Royal College of Phyfi- 
cians, the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquarfe 
ans, and to the Britifti Mufeum ; alfb to the Royal 
Accademy of Sciences at Taris, from whom he receive 
ed the moft polite and obliging letter of thanks by 
their then fecretary Monfteur Defouchy® 
The 
* A Defcription of this Medal is given behind the title in the firft volume 
of his works. 
