# Silver Medal (Zoological Society of London)

The Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London is "Awarded to a Fellow of the Society or any other person for contributions to the understanding and appreciation of zoology, including such activities as public education in natural history, and wildlife conservation." It was first awarded in 1847.

## Winners (pre-1964)

| Year | Recipient |
| 1847 | Roderick Murchison & M Dalmatoff |
| 1859 | Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning & William Hay & Henry Ramsey & Brian Houghton Hodgson & H G Keene & Rajendra Mullick & Richard Green & William Dougal Christie |
| 1860 | George Grey & Gerald Chetwynd-Talbot |
| 1862 | George Bennett |
| 1869 | Rutherford Alcock |
| 1872 | A D Bartlett |
| 1875 | H H Seyyid Barghash bin Said |
| 1877 | Robert Hudson |
| 1878 | Frederick Richard Pollock |
| 1882 | John Dean Caton |
| 1884 | George H R Fisk |
| 1887 | The Maharajah of Kuch-Bechar |
| 1889 | Edward Dalzel Dickson |
| 1891 | Ursula Edmondston & Robert Thomas Charles Scott |
| 1893 | Donald Cameron of Lochiel & John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus |
| 1894 | Henry Hamilton Johnston |
| 1897 | Alexander Whyte |
| 1900 | John Ernest Matcham |
| 1902 | Edmund William Harper |
| 1904 | Arthur Thomson |
| 1907 | Adam White Guthrie |
| 1908 | David Seth-Smith & William Ingram |
| 1909 | Charles Dunell Rudd & Richard Bowen Woosnam |
| 1910 | Carl Hagenbeck |
| 1912 | J Stevenson Hamilton |
| 1914 | R E Drake-Brockman & Albert Pam & W K Pomeroy & H G F Spurrell |
| 1917 | Wilfred A Smithers |
| 1921 | John Young & Cecil H. Armitage |
| 1926 | Henry Courtney Brocklehurst |
| 1931 | A St Alban Smith |
| 1937 | E B Carter |
| 1938 | Gerald Cope Upstone |
| 1942 | Alfred Ezra & Geoffrey Marr Vevers |
| 1945 | Dorothy Pinto-Leite |
| 1946 | William Chippendale |
| 1952 | Annie Porter |
| 1953 | Herbet F Vinall |
| 1955 | John Withers Lester |
| 1958 | Joao de Freitas Martins |

## Winners (post-1964)

In 1964, the criteria for the Silver Medal were changed, split into 2 categories. Category 1 is awarded to individuals for Curation or distinguished service to the Society, whilst Category 2 is awarded to fellows who have provided a significant contribution to the field of zoology, including in both wildlife conservation and public education of natural history.
| Year | Category 1 | Category 2 |
| 1964 | George Burden Stratton | Lord Hurcomb |
| 1965 | | David Attenborough |
| 1966 | | Aubrey Buxton |
| 1968 | | James Fisher |
| 1969 | F A P Stengelhofen | |
| 1973 | A J E Cave & Eirwen M Owen & L G Goodwin | |
| 1974 | | Eric Hosking |
| 1975 | | Gerald H Thompson |
| 1983 | | Stephen Jay Gould |
| 1984 | E H Ashton | |
| 1985 | | L. Harrison Matthews |
| 1988 | | Richard Dawkins |
| 1991 | Owen C. Chamberlain | Jane Goodall |
| 1993 | | Jonathan Kingdon |
| 1997 | | George B. Rabb |
| 1999 | Michael Brambell | |
| 2003 | Peter Olney | Aubrey Manning |
| 2004 | John Chapple | |
| 2005 | | Alastair Fothergill |
| 2007 | | Scottish Ornithologists Club |
| 2008 | | Rosie Trevelyan |
| 2009 | | David Macdonald |
| 2010 | | Michael McCarthy |
| 2011 | | Martin Fisher |
| 2012 | | Helen Roy |
| 2013 | | Tim Birkhead |
| 2014 | | Darren Mann |
| 2015 | | Nathalie Pettorelli Seirian Sumner |
| 2016 | | Richard Fortey |
| 2017 | | Steve Jones |
| 2018 | | James Barnett |