Awards & Winners

1863 Copley Medal

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Copley Medal

Adam Sedgwick

(For his original observations and discoveries in the geology of the Palaeozoic Series of rocks, and more especially for his determination of the characters of the Devonian System, by observations of the order of superposition of the Killas rocks & their fossils in Devonshire.)