The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888 (1888), and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and is for the preceding years often referred to as "the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society", not to be confused with the official Linnean Gold Medal which is seldom awarded.
The engraver of the medal was Charles Anderson Ferrier of Dundee, a Fellow of the Linnean Society from 1882. On the obverse of the medal is the head of Linnaeus in profile and the words "Carolus Linnaeus", on the reverse are the arms of the society and the legend "Societas Linnaeana optime merenti"; an oval space is reserved for the recipient's name.
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Linnean medallists
19th century
1888: Sir Joseph D. Hooker and Sir Richard Owen
1889: Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle
1890: Thomas Henry Huxley
1891: Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
1892: Alfred Russel Wallace
1893: Daniel Oliver
1894: Ernst Haeckel
1895: Ferdinand Julius Cohn
1896: George James Allman
1897: Jacob Georg Agardh
1898: George Charles Wallich
1899: John Gilbert Baker
1900: Alfred Newton
20th century
1901: Sir George King
1902: Albert von Kölliker
1903: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
1904: Albert C. L. G. Günther
1905: Eduard Strasburger
1906: Alfred Merle Norman
1907: Melchior Treub
1908: Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
1909: Frederick Orpen Bower
1910: Georg Ossian Sars
1911: Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach
1912: Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
1913: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler
1914: Otto Butschli
1915: Joseph Henry Maiden
1916: Frank Evers Beddard
1917: Henry Brougham Guppy
1918: Frederick DuCane Godman
1919: Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
1920: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
1921: Dukinfield Henry Scott
1922: Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton
1923: Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
1924: William Carmichael McIntosh
21st century
2001: Chris Humphries and Gareth J. Nelson
2002: Sherwin Carlquist and William J. Kennedy
2003: Pieter Baas and Bryan Campbell Clarke
2004: Geoffrey Allen Boxshall and John Dransfield
2005: Paula Rudall and Andrew Smith
2006: David Mabberley and Richard A. Fortey
2007: Phil Cribb and Thomas Cavalier-Smith
2008: Jeffrey Duckett and Stephen Donovan
2009: Peter Shaw Ashton and Michael Akam
2010: Dianne Edwards and Derek Yalden
2011: Brian J. Coppins and H. Charles Godfray
2012: Stephen Blackmore and Peter Holland
2013: Kingsley Wayne Dixon
2014: Niels Peder Kristensen and Hans Walter Lack
2015: Engkik Soepadmo, Claus Nielsen, and Rosmarie Honegger
2016: Sandra Knapp and Georgina Mace
2017: Charlie Jarvis and David Rollinson
2018: Kamaljit S Bawa, Jeremy Holloway, and Sophien Kamoun
2019: Vicki Funk and Samuel T. Turvey