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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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