| Description | Copies of Secretarial letters announcing the award of the Darwin Medal to recipients, with their replies, usually expressing appreciation. With associated correspondence, on matters such as arrangements for attendance at meetings for medal presentations. The file also contains some general enquiries on the Darwin Medal, notably on the theft and replacement of an award made to Henry Fairfield Osborn. With some copies of statements in support of candidates, including John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and Felix Eugen Fritsch.
The Darwin Medal, in silver, 'is given biennially in reward of work of acknowledged distinction (especially in Biology) in the field in which Mr. Darwin...laboured. The award may be made to either a British subject or a foreigner, and without distinction of sex'. |