IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 156559 accession number: CM.40-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 bronze; the Museum also has one in white metal. title: Hector Memorial Medal NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Wyon Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156559 CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1914 - 1915 creation date earliest: 1914 creation date latest: 1915 CREATORS -------- maker: Wyon, Allan Gairdner maker: New Zealand Institute maker: Hector, James, Sir EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals CITATIONS -------- Hector Memorial Research Fund --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 358 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg height: 364 pixels width: 360 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm18/preview_CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels