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The John Thackray Medal: past winners

 

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The design is based on a photograph of John Thackray
(Archives of natural history 27: [iv] frontispiece);
the medal was made by Thomas Fattorini, Birmingham, and is cased in solid hallmarked silver
(Newsletter no. 67: 11. 2000).

To nominate someone for the 2004 medal, please click here.

2003: Dr Clemency Fisher (Curator of birds & mammals, Liverpool Museum)

for the exhibition “The Earl & the Pussycat” and editing its associated publication A Passion for Natural History

This is the citation for the medal (written by Mr John Edwards, outgoing president of the Society):

“In awarding the Thackray Medal to Dr Clemency Fisher for the exhibition “The Earl & the Pussycat” and editing its associated publication “A Passion for Natural History”, your Council has had regard firstly to the evidence of formidable interdisciplinary erudition, indispensable to do justice to the multifarious interests of the 13th Earl of Derby – which ranged from breeding African antelopes to the collection of Elizabethan miniatures.”

“Secondly your Council has been greatly impressed by the qualities of character, determination and organisation displayed by the Medallist, without which it would have been impossible to assemble items for the exhibition and contributions to the publication even under the most favourable circumstances. But to have accomplished these tasks in the midst of the reconstruction of the Liverpool Museum has been a tour de force indeed.”

Past winners

2002: Mr E. W. Groves, Mr D. T. Moore and the late Professor T. G. Vallance
            for Nature’s Investigator. The diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801–1805.

2001: Professor A. Geus and Dr K. Schulze-Hagen
            for the exhibition on Joseph Wolf and the accompanying catalogue.

2000: The Natural History Museum, London, and Dr Tony Rice
            for the exhibition Voyages of Discovery and the accompanying book.


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