The Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London is "Awarded to a Fellow of the Society or any other person for contributions to the understanding and appreciation of zoology, including such activities as public education in natural history, and wildlife conservation." It was first awarded in 1847.
Winners (pre-1964) Year Recipient 1847 Roderick Murchison & M Dalmatoff 1859 Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning & William Hay & Henry Ramsey & Brian Houghton Hodgson & H G Keene & Rajendra Mullick & Richard Green & William Dougal Christie 1860 George Grey & Gerald Chetwynd-Talbot 1862 George Bennett 1869 Rutherford Alcock 1872 A D Bartlett 1875 H H Seyyid Barghash bin Said 1877 Robert Hudson 1878 Frederick Richard Pollock 1882 John Dean Caton 1884 George H R Fisk 1887 The Maharajah of Kuch-Bechar 1889 Edward Dalzel Dickson 1891 Ursula Edmondston & Robert Thomas Charles Scott 1893 Donald Cameron of Lochiel & John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus 1894 Henry Hamilton Johnston 1897 Alexander Whyte 1900 John Ernest Matcham 1902 Edmund William Harper 1904 Arthur Thomson 1907 Adam White Guthrie 1908 David Seth-Smith & William Ingram 1909 Charles Dunell Rudd & 1910 Carl Hagenbeck 1912 J Stevenson Hamilton 1914 R E Drake-Brockman & Albert Pam & W K Pomeroy & H G F Spurrell 1917 Wilfred A Smithers 1921 John Young & Cecil H. Armitage 1926 Henry Courtney Brocklehurst 1931 A St Alban Smith 1937 E B Carter 1938 Gerald Cope Upstone 1942 Alfred Ezra & Geoffrey Marr Vevers 1945 Dorothy Pinto-Leite 1946 William Chippendale 1952 Annie Porter 1953 Herbet F Vinall 1955 John Withers Lester 1958 Joao de Freitas Martins
Winners (post-1964)
In 1964, the criteria for the Silver Medal were changed, split into 2 categories. Category 1 is awarded to individuals for curation or distinguished service to the Society, whilst Category 2 is awarded to fellows who have provided a significant contribution to the field of zoology, including in both wildlife conservation and public education of natural history.
Year Category 1 Category 2 1964 George Burden Stratton Lord Hurcomb 1965 David Attenborough 1966 Aubrey Buxton 1968 James Fisher 1969 F A P Stengelhofen 1973 A J E Cave & Eirwen M Owen & L G Goodwin 1974 Eric Hosking 1975 Gerald H Thompson 1983 Stephen Jay Gould 1984 E H Ashton 1985 L. Harrison Matthews 1988 Richard Dawkins 1991 Owen C. Chamberlain Jane Goodall 1993 Jonathan Kingdon 1997 George B. Rabb 1999 Michael Brambell 2003 Peter Olney Aubrey Manning 2004 John Chapple 2005 Alastair Fothergill 2007 Scottish Ornithologists Club 2008 Rosie Trevelyan 2009 David Macdonald 2010 Michael McCarthy 2011 Martin Fisher 2012 Helen Roy2013Tim Birkhead2014Darren Mann2015Nathalie Pettorelli
Seirian Sumner2016Richard Fortey2017Steve Jones2018James Barnett
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