The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest

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in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences. The medal is named in honour of the Reverend William Branwhite Clarke, one of the founders of the Society and was to be ''"awarded for meritorious contributions to

Geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ea ...

, Mineralogy and Natural History of

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, to be open to men of science, whether resident in Australasia or elsewhere"''. It is now awarded annually for distinguished work in the Natural Sciences (geology,

botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

and

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

) done in the Australian Commonwealth and its territories. Each discipline is considered in rotation every three years.

Recipients

Source: Royal Society of New South Wales * 1878: Richard Owen (Zoology) * 1879:

George Bentham George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...

(Botany) * 1880:

Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The stor ...

(Palaeontology) * 1881:

Frederick McCoy Sir Frederick McCoy (1817 – 13 May 1899), was an Irish palaeontologist, zoologist, and museum administrator, active in Australia. He is noted for founding the Botanic Garden of the University of Melbourne in 1856. Early life McCoy was the so ...

(Palaeontology) * 1882:

James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continent ...

(Geology) * 1883: Ferdinand von Mueller (Botany) * 1884:

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL.D, FRS, FGS (26 July 182419 October 1902) was a British geologist and public servant, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852 to 1869, director of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) fro ...

(Geology) * 1885:

Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of ...

(Botany) * 1886: Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (Palaeontology) * 1887:

Sir James Hector Sir James Hector (16 March 1834 – 6 November 1907) was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employe ...

(Geology) * 1888:

Julian Tenison Woods Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (15 November 18327 October 1889), commonly referred to as Father Woods, was an English Catholic priest and geologist who served in Australia.D. H. BorchardtTenison-Woods, Julian Edmund (1832–1889) '' Australian Di ...

(Geology) * 1889: Robert L. J. Ellery (Astronomy) * 1890: George Bennett (Zoology) * 1891: Frederick Hutton (Geology) * 1892:

William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (28 July 1843 – 23 December 1928) was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Life and career Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London. He was a son of ...

(Botany) * 1893:

Ralph Tate Ralph Tate (11 March 1840 – 20 September 1901) was a British-born botanist and geologist, who was later active in Australia. Early life Tate was born at Alnwick in Northumberland, the son of Thomas Turner Tate (1807–1888), a teacher of m ...

(Botany and Geology) * 1895: ''Joint Award:''

Robert Logan Jack Robert Logan Jack (16 September 1845 – 6 November 1921) was government geologist in Queensland, Australia, for twenty years. There is a minor waterway on Cape York; Logan Jack Creek, whose outflow is located some 7 kilometres from Ussher Poin ...

(Geology) and Robert Etheridge, Jr. (Palaeontology) * 1896:

Augustus Gregory Sir Augustus Charles Gregory (1 August 1819 – 25 June 1905) was an English-born Australian explorer and surveyor. Between 1846 and 1858 he undertook four major expeditions. He was the first Surveyor-General of Queensland. He was appointed a ...

(Exploration) * 1900: John Murray (Oceanography) * 1901:

Edward John Eyre Edward John Eyre (5 August 181530 November 1901) was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and Governor of Jamaica. Early life Eyre was born in Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, shortly before his family moved t ...

(Exploration) * 1902:

Frederick Manson Bailey Frederick Manson Bailey (8 March 1827 – 25 June 1915) was a botanist active in Australia, who made valuable contributions to the characterisation of the flora of Queensland. He was known by his middle name, Manson. Early life Bailey was bo ...

(Botany) * 1903: Alfred William Howitt (Anthropology) * 1907: Walter Howchin (Geology) * 1909:

Walter Roth Walter Edmund Roth (2 April 1861 – 5 April 1933) was a British colonial administrator, anthropologist and medical practitioner, who worked in Queensland, Australia and British Guiana between 1898 and 1928. Roth and his brother, Henry Lin ...

(Anthropology) * 1912: William Harper Twelvetrees (Geology) * 1914:

Arthur Smith Woodward Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish. He also described the Piltdown Man fossils, which were later determined to be fraudulent. He is not relate ...

(Palaeontology) * 1915:

William Aitcheson Haswell William Aitcheson Haswell (5 August 1854 – 24 January 1925) was a Scottish-Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal. His zoological author abbreviation is Haswell. Taxa authored by him are given in :T ...

(Zoology) * 1917:

Edgeworth David Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934) was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. A household name in his lifetime, David's most significant achievements were discovering the major Hunter ...

(Geology) * 1918:

Leonard Rodway Leonard Rodway (5 October 1853 – 9 March 1936) was an English-born Australian dentist and botanist. Early life Rodway was born in Torquay Devon, England, the thirteenth child of Henry Barron Rodway, a dentist and inventor of the Rodway life ...

(Botany) * 1920: Joseph Edmund Carne (Geology) * 1921: Joseph James Fletcher (Biology) * 1922:

Richard Thomas Baker Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 – 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic Botany, botanist, museum curator and educator. Early life Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née ...

(Botany) * 1923:

Walter Baldwin Spencer Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (23 June 1860 – 14 July 1929), commonly referred to as Baldwin Spencer, was a British-Australian evolutionary biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his fieldwork with Aboriginal peoples in ...

(Anthropology) * 1924:

Joseph Maiden Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...

(Botany) * 1925:

Charles Hedley Charles Hedley (27 February 1862 – 14 September 1926) was a naturalist, specifically a malacologist. Born in Britain, he spent most of his life in Australia. He was the winner of the 1925 Clarke Medal. Early life Hedley was born in the vicara ...

(Biology) * 1927:

Andrew Gibb Maitland Andrew Gibb Maitland (30 November 1864 – 27 January 1951) was an English-born Australian geologist. Maitland was born in Birkby, Yorkshire, England and studied civil engineering at Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds where he was influenced ...

(Geology) * 1928:

Ernest Clayton Andrews Ernest Clayton Andrews BA, FRS (18 October 1870 – 1 July 1948), commonly referred to as E. C. Andrews, was an Australian geologist and botanist. Early life and education Andrews was born in Balmain, New South Wales, second child of noted artis ...

(Geology) * 1929: Ernest Willington Skeats (Geology) * 1930: Leonard Keith Ward (Geology) * 1931:

Robert John Tillyard Robert "Robin" John Tillyard FRS (31 January 1881 – 13 January 1937) was an English–Australian entomologist and geologist. Early life and education Tillyard was the son of J. J. Tillyard and his wife Mary Ann Frances, née Wilson and was ...

(Entomology) * 1932: Frederick Chapman (Palaeontology) * 1933: Walter George Woolnough (Geology) * 1934: Edward Sydney Simpson (Mineralogy) * 1935: G. W. Card (Geology) * 1936:

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader duri ...

(Geology) * 1937: John Thomas Jutson (Geology) * 1938:

Henry Caselli Richards Henry Caselli (H. C.) Richards (16 December 1884 – 13 June 1947), was an Australian professor of geology, academic and teacher. Education Richards was born in Melton, Victoria and was educated at Box Hill Grammar, South Melbourne College a ...

(Geology) * 1939: Carl Süssmilch (Geology) * 1941:

Frederic Wood Jones Frederic Wood Jones FRS (23 January 1879 – 29 September 1954), usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia. Biography Jon ...

(Zoology) * 1942: William Rowan Browne (Geology) * 1943: Walter Lawry Waterhouse (Botany) * 1944: Wilfred Eade Agar (Zoology) * 1945:

Noel Benson William Noel Benson FRS FRGS (26 December 1885 – 20 August 1957) was an English-born research geologist and academic active first in Australia and then New Zealand. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporari ...

(Geology) * 1946:

John McConnell Black John McConnell Black (28 April 1855 – 2 December 1951) was a Scottish botanist who emigrated to Australia in 1877 and eventually documented and illustrated thousands of flora in South Australia in the early 20th century. His publications assi ...

(Botany) * 1947:

Hubert Lyman Clark Hubert Lyman Clark (January 9, 1870 – July 31, 1947) was an American zoologist. The son of Professor William Smith Clark, he was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University. From 1899 to 1905 he ...

(Zoology) * 1948:

Arthur Bache Walkom Arthur Bache Walkom (8 February 1889 – 2 July 1976) was an Australian palaeobotanist and museum director. Walkom was born in Grafton, New South Wales and moved with his family to Sydney where he was educated at Petersham Public and Fort Stree ...

(Palaeobotany) * 1949: Herman Rupp (Botany) * 1950:

Ian Murray Mackerras Ian Murray Mackerras (19 September 1898 – 21 March 1980) was an Australian zoologist. Mackerras was born in Balclutha, New Zealand to James Murray Mackerras, and Elizabeth Mary (née Creagh), both farmers. His parents separated and Ian and brot ...

(Zoology) * 1951: Frank Leslie Stillwell (Geology) * 1952: Joseph Garnett Wood (Botany) * 1953:

Alexander John Nicholson Alexander John Nicholson (25 March 1895 – 28 October 1969) was an Irish Australian entomologist who specialized in insect population dynamics. He was Chief of the CSIR / CSIRO Division of Economic Entomology for 24 years and is credited with ...

(Entomology) * 1954: Edward de Courcy Clarke (Geology) * 1955: Rutherford Ness Robertson (Botany) * 1956: Oscar Werner Tiegs (Zoology) * 1957: Irene Crespin (Geology) * 1958: Theodore G. B. Osborn (Botany) * 1959:

Tom Iredale Tom Iredale (24 March 1880 – 12 April 1972) was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked forma ...

(Zoology) * 1960:

Austin Burton Edwards Austin Burton Edwards (15 August 1909 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian geologist, winner of the Clarke Medal in 1960. Family The son of William Burton Edwards (1856-1925), the Commissioner of the Federal Public Service, and his second wife, ...

(Geology) * 1961:

Charles Austin Gardner Charles Austin Gardner (6 January 1896 – 24 February 1970) was an English-born Western Australian botanist. Biography Born in Lancaster, in England, on 6 January 1896, Gardner emigrated to Western Australia with his family in 1909, whe ...

(Botany) * 1962:

Horace Waring Horace Waring (17 December 1910 – 9 August 1980) was an English/Australian zoologist, winner of the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1962. Waring was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England, and was educated at the Un ...

(Zoology) * 1963: Germaine A. Joplin (Geology) * 1964:

Joyce Winifred Vickery Joyce Winifred Vickery (15 December 190829 May 1979) was an Australian botanist who specialised in taxonomy and became well known in Australia for forensic botany. Early life and education Joyce was born in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield. She ...

(Botany) * 1965:

Mabel Josephine Mackerras Mabel Josephine (Jo) Mackerras (née Bancroft) (7 August 1896 – 8 October 1971) was an Australian zoologist, entomologist and parasitologist. Her research and life's work contributed to entomology, veterinary medicine and medical science. T ...

(Zoology) * 1966:

Dorothy Hill Dorothy Hill, (10 September 1907 – 23 April 1997) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science. Education Doroth ...

(Geology) * 1967: Spencer Smith-White (Botany) * 1968: Herbert G. Andrewartha (Zoology) * 1969:

Samuel Warren Carey Samuel Warren Carey AO (1 November 1911, in Campbelltown – 20 March 2002, in Hobart) was an Australian geologist and a professor at the University of Tasmania. He was an early advocate of the theory of continental drift. His work on pla ...

(Geology) * 1970:

Gilbert Percy Whitley Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England ...

(Zoology) * 1971:

Nancy Tyson Burbidge Nancy Tyson Burbidge (5 August 1912 – 4 March 1977) was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator. Early life and training Burbidge was born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire; her father, William Burbidge, was an Ang ...

(Botany) * 1972: Haddon King (Geology) * 1973: Marshall Hatch (Botany) * 1974: Cecil Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe (Zoology) * 1975: Joseph Newell Jennings (Geography) * 1976: Lilian R. Fraser * 1977: Alec Trendall (Geology) * 1978: D. T. Anderson * 1979:

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (19 ...

(Botany) * 1981:

William Stephenson Sir William Samuel Stephenson (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989), born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coord ...

(marine biologist) * 1982: Noel Charles William Beadle (Botany) * 1983: Keith Alan Waterhouse Crook (Geology) * 1984: Mike Archer (Palaeontology) * 1985: Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley * 1986: David Groves (Geology) * 1987: Antony James Underwood * 1988: Barry Garth Rolfe * 1989:

John Roberts John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including '' Nat ...

(Geology) * 1990: Barrie Gillen Molyneux Jamieson (Zoology) * 1991: Shirley Winifred Jeffrey (Biology/Botany) * 1992:

Alfred Edward Ringwood Alfred Edward "Ted" Ringwood FRS FAA (19 April 1930 – 12 November 1993) was an Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist, and the 1988 recipient of the Wollaston Medal. The mineral ringwoodite is named after him. Early life and ...

(Geology) * 1993: Gordon C. Grigg (Zoology) * 1994: ''Joint award:''

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and Barbara Gillian Briggs (Botany) * 1995: Christopher McAuley Powell (Geology) * 1996: Klaus Rohde (Zoology) * 1997: Charles Barry Osmond (Botany) * 1998: Richard Limon Stanton (Geology) * 1999:

Richard Shine Richard Shine (born 7 June 1950) is an Australian evolutionary biologist and ecologist; he has conducted extensive research on reptiles and amphibians, and proposed a novel mechanism for evolutionary change. He is currently a Professor of B ...

(Zoology) * 2000: Sarah Elizabeth Smith (Agriculture) * 2001: Gordon H. Packham (Geology) * 2002: Robert Hill (Botany) * 2003:

Lesley Joy Rogers Lesley Joy Rogers (born 31 July 1943) is a neurobiologist and emeritus professor of neuroscience and animal behaviour at the University of New England. Academic career and education Rogers obtained Bachelor of Science with honours at the Uni ...

(Zoology) * 2004:

Ian Plimer Ian Rutherford Plimer (born 12 February 1946) is an Australian geologist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has been criticised by climate scientists for misinterp ...

(Geology) * 2005: Mark Westoby (Botany) * 2006: Anthony Hulbert (Zoology) * 2007: Suzanne O'Reilly (Geology) * 2008: Bradley Potts (Botany) * 2009: Winston F. Ponder (Zoology) * 2010: Kenton Campbell (Geology) * 2011: Byron Lamont (Botany) * 2012:

Marilyn Renfree Marilyn Bernice Renfree (born 19 April 1947) is an Australian zoologist. She completed her PhD at the Australian National University, was a post-doctoral fellow in Tennessee and then Edinburgh before returning to Australia. Since 1991, Renfree ...

(Zoology) * 2013: William Griffin (Geology) * 2014: Robert F. Park (Botany) * 2015: Christopher Dickman (Zoology) * 2016: Simon P. Turner (Geology) * 2017: David Keith (Botany) * 2018: Emma Johnston (Zoology) * 2019:

Dietmar Müller Dietmar Müller is a professor of geophysics at the school of geosciences, the University of Sydney. Early life and education Müller received his undergraduate degree from the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany, followed by ...

(Geology) * 2020: Michelle Leishman (Botany) * 2021: John Aitken (biologist), John Aitken (Zoology) * 2022: Andrew Baker (Geology)

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