1592962329000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-156559 1747245970979 1711451013000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-156559 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156559 336d7800-c0dc-3d67-9027-6aae75b2bad6 5 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-125607 adlib-term-125607 a92ebb6b-ebe8-3f5b-bd00-1fc943a28eee Wyon Collection reference term-40365 adlib-term-40365 d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005 bronze Diameter mm 63.0 Die Axis degrees 0 Weight g 98.34 Object reference term-119622 adlib-term-119622 dd6626e9-5822-307d-aa31-13c8813e7555 struck Coins and Medals 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. reference exhibition-2271 adlib-exhibition-2271 605a8492-3164-31f4-a420-511eba2bdb91 Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals CM.40-2005 1 accession number CM.40-2005 156559 priref 156559 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156559 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156559 Bust of Sir James Hector left with inscription "BORN / MDCCCXXXIV / DIED / MDCCCCVII" behind head, legend in border around obverse TO·COMMEMORATE·THE·WORK·OF·SIR·JAMES·HECTOR·K·C·M·G·F·R·S·M·D·IN·NEW·ZEALAND·MDCCCLXIV--MCMVII [rosette] design Explorer in Maori dress with staff kneeling beneath palm tree with grasses behind, left hand raised to shade eyes and gazing at pair of birds on branch of small tree to right, lake with Maori canoe sailing right and mountains in backgrond; in the exergue, laboratory equipment including a retort, a globe and stack of books; legend in border around reverse NEW · ZEALAND · INSTITUTE / FOR · SCIENTIFIC · RESEARCH design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-179128 adlib-agent-179128 30bb0254-63dd-3369-93a8-2f8aa7ada7e0 Watson, Philip Charles 2005 2005 2005-01-31 given Entry date: 2005-01-31 1914 1914 CE 1914 1914-07-14 1915 undated 1 1915 CE 1915 1915 artist reference agent-174970 adlib-agent-174970 7cf26f3c-3f59-3f29-86f8-8e012afd13f2 Wyon, Allan Gairdner issuer reference agent-176407 adlib-agent-176407 db376f69-ced1-3f20-9352-df09acf9d981 New Zealand Institute struck in the name of issuer reference agent-179111 adlib-agent-179111 a32a2d2b-026f-31bd-b355-d0b96af74aee Hector, James, Sir Bronze specimen reference term-124722 adlib-term-124722 51fd4b10-e5d6-35cc-829e-6754221d2382 Wellington (NZ) reference media-136276 adlib-media-136276 b9a48427-ba39-3721-b161-1d07d4807f99 jpeg cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 358 1742591882186 1 image jpeg cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 358 1742591882186 1 image jpeg cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 358 1742591882186 1 image jpeg cm/cm18/preview_CM_40_2005_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 255 width pixels 250 1742591882186 1 image 0 media image reference media-136277 adlib-media-136277 6e2fd0dd-a148-3fcf-b55c-c900220fbae2 jpeg cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 364 width pixels 360 1742591887250 1 image jpeg cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 364 width pixels 360 1742591887250 1 image jpeg cm/cm18/CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 364 width pixels 360 1742591887250 1 image jpeg cm/cm18/preview_CM_40_2005_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 253 width pixels 250 1742591887250 1 image 1 media image reference term-125641 adlib-term-125641 b8694e0c-3fe2-3dbd-8851-7a75e2aa1a18 Hector Memorial Medal denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-1987 adlib-term-1987 6c06b083-c18f-3c2e-b205-855c832e0e16 prize subseries reference term-9097 adlib-term-9097 39455d30-a410-3281-99d6-4d8d92279b23 New Zealand subsubseries reference term-125642 adlib-term-125642 329d0d04-ed08-396c-a286-d21e1880539a ALLAN G. WYON signatures history note From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_50/rsnz_50_00_004140.html 359 reference publication-200002126 adlib-publication-200002126 acb91209-b0a4-341d-b08b-a2f53fc6369f Hector Memorial Research Fund

reference term-125641 adlib-term-125641 b8694e0c-3fe2-3dbd-8851-7a75e2aa1a18 Hector Memorial Medal

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