IDENTIFIERS
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id:	156558
accession number:	CM.39-2005

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 18 January 2013

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sir James Hector was for much of the nineteenth century New Zealand's foremost man of science. He began his career in Canada as part of the Royal Geological Survey, and in 1859 came to New Zealand to found the Geological Survey there. In 1868 he became head of the New Zealand Institute, the country's premier scientific society, and remained so until 1903 when he retired. He died in 1907, and a fund was established to commemorate his work by the establishment of a prize for scientific research, which was duly established in 1908. The prize was, and is still, awarded in the form of a bronze medal, to the person whom the Awards Committee considers to have done the most that year to advance their field. The field concerned rotates annually through botany, chemistry, ethnology, geology, physics (in which were considered mathematics and astronomy) and zoology. The medal that is awarded for this prize was designed by Allan Gairdner Wyon, and this piece is a specimen in white metal; the Museum also has one in bronze.
title:	Hector Memorial Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Wyon Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156558





CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1914 - 1915
creation date earliest:	1914
creation date latest:	1915

CREATORS
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maker: Wyon, Allan Gairdner
maker: New Zealand Institute
maker: Hector, James, Sir


CITATIONS
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Hector Memorial Research Fund
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