The Linnean Gold Medal is a medal awarded by the

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

in "special circumstances" for "services to the Society". As the society's highest honour it has, to date, only been awarded three times.

Gold Medallists

Doris Kermack Doris Mary Kermack FLS (née Carr; 1923 – 2003) was a British paleontologist and marine zoologist at Imperial College London. She completed her PhD thesis entitled 'The anatomy and physiology of the gut of ''Arenicola marina'' L.' at Unive ...

(1988) (palaeontologist and marine zoologist) * David F. Cutler PPLS (1999) (botanist and plant anatomist) *

Grenville Llewellyn Lucas Grenville 'Gren' Llewellyn Lucas (20 December 1935 – 12 December 2022) was a British botanist, conservationist, and Keeper of the Herbarium and Library at Kew Gardens. Biography Grenville Llewellyn Lucas was born in Cardiff on 20 December 193 ...

(2007) (Keeper of the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew)

External links

The Linnean Gold Medal website

References

{{Carl Linnaeus British science and technology awards