|
Year |
Country |
Dia. (mm) |
Item |
Image |
Notes |
|
1898 |
UK |
63 |
F1 |
 |
 |
Bronze, by F. Bowcher for
the Huxley Memorial Committee [3]. Recovered
from the rubble of a blitzed English building during World War Two. |
|
1908 |
48 |
F2 |
 |
 |
Bronze, by F. Bowcher for
the Linnean Society. Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Darwin-Wallace
evolutionary theory paper. Recipients of this medal included an 85-year-old
A. R. Wallace and a 91-year-old J. D. Hooker [2].
Darwin portrait is based on c1874 photo by Leonard Darwin (engraving here). |
| 1959 |
USSR |
64 |
F3 |
 |
 |
Bronze, by G. S. Chkolsky. Commemorates the centenary of the publication of the Origin
of Species. Darwin's portrait is based on an 1874
engraving [7]
by C. H. Jeens, from a c1870 photo by O. J. Rejlander. |
| 1974 |
UK |
45 |
F4 |
 |
 |
Silver, by John
Pinches, from Mountbatten's
"Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea." |
| 1977 |
Tuvalu |
38 |
F5 |
 |
 |
Silver, issued with a
set of stamps commemorating the Royal
Society's 1896-97 expeditions to Tuvalu to test Darwin's subsidence
theory of coral island formation. |
