| Description | Copies of Secretarial letters announcing the award of the Rumford 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 includes some copy statements in support candidates, including Sir Thomas Merton, Edmund John Bowen, and Dudley Maurice Newitt.
The Rumford Medal, in gold, with a silver copy, is awarded every second year 'to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which shall be made and published...on Heat or Light...to promote the good of Mankind'. |