| Description | Copies of Secretarial letters announcing the award of Royal Medals 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 includes letters of approval on behalf of the reigning monarch, from Windsor Castle, and from the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace.
Royal Medals, in gold, 'are awarded annually by the Sovereign upon the recommendation of the Council, for the two most important contributions to the advancement of Natural Knowledge...one is given each year to each of the two great divisions of Natural Knowledge'. |