He edited the 2nd edition of Mantells Medals of Creation ( 1854 ), the 3rd edition of Mantells Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight ( 1854 ), and the 7th edition of Mantells Wonders of Geology ( 1857 ); he also edited the 2nd edition of Dixons Geology of Sussex ( 1878 ).

The Albert Medal First Class awarded to William Beith can be seen as part of the permanent exhibition in the Coins and Medals Gallery at the National Museum of Wales in Cathays Park, Cardiff.

These decorations are two of the oldest medals in the United States and were originally established at the Department of Treasury as Lifesaving Medals First and Second Class.

* Savannah's First Medals

First created in 1925 as the Fleet Marine Reserve Medal, this is the oldest of the Reserve Good Conduct Medals.

Medals ( gold and silver ) are now awarded in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, First Work of Fiction, Californiana ( fiction or nonfiction relating to California ), Juvenile Literature ( up to age 10 ), Young Adult Literature ( age 11-16 ) and Notable Contribution to Publishing.

The remaining two medals are British Campaign Medals from the First World War: the British War Medal and the Victory Medal ; those two medals are colloquially known as " Mutt and Jeff ".

This medal was identical to the prior British South Africa Company Medals issued for the First Matabele War and Second Matabele War, except that it was struck without any campaign details on the reverse.

At Buckingham Palace the surviving members of the expedition were awarded Polar Medals by King George and Prince Louis of Battenberg, the First Sea Lord.

Five Fields Medals in Mathematics were won by members of the college ( of the six awarded to members of British universities ).

* No Ribbons or Medals: the story of " Hereward " an Australian counter espionage officer published by Jacobyte Books, South Australia, 2004 ISBN 1-74100-165-X available from Digital Print, South Australia.

Medals are not normally presented by the Sovereign.

* Icehouse: Icehouse is an ice lager ( 5. 5 % alcohol by volume ) and was the winner of the 2003 and 2007 Gold Medals for American-Style Specialty Lager at the Great American Beer Festival, and also won the American-style Ice Lager Gold Cup of the 1996 and 1998 World Beer Cup competitions.

Over the years Mr Seidler was also awarded five Sulman Medals by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, as well as the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1976, and the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1996.

Additional awards of the Army and Air Force Commendation Medals are denoted by bronze and silver oak leaf clusters.

* The first Medals of Honor ( Army ) were awarded by and presented to six " Andrews Raiders " on March 25, 1863, by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, in his office in the War Department.

see Valdemar Robert Wake's book No Ribbons or Medals published by Jacobyte Books in 2004.

He has received two Commendation Medals by the U. S. Public Health Service and numerous other awards and tributes.

Walker's principal writings are: Of education, especially of young gentlemen ( Oxford, 1673, and six other editions ); Ars rationis ad mentem nominalium libri tres ( Oxford, 1673 ); and Greek and Roman History illustrated by Coins and Medals ( London, 1692 ).

While staffing one of the Navy awards, the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Raymond M. Walsh, explained that an internee of the Soviet Union was previously denied the POW Medal under the older version of 10 USC § 1128 “ because he was not a prisoner of an enemy of the United States .” However, he could now be considered for the medal because “ The 1989 change to the law permits the Secretary of the Navy to determine if the circumstances under which internee was held captive were ‘ comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .’” While staffing the Air Force award, the Air Force Directorate of Personnel Services ( AFPC / DPS ) concluded that “ In 1989, Title 10, Section 1128, regarding Prisoner of War Medals changed and allowed Service secretaries to determine eligibility for the POW Medal for personnel held captive in countries not directly involved in armed conflict with the United States, provided the treatment of the prisoners was similar to the treatment received by prisoners held by enemy forces .” AFPC / DPS determined that the internees in Siberia met the statutory criteria because “ the conditions of this detainment were comparable, if not worse, than those experienced in Germany, and therefore, should be eligible for the POW Medal .” In 1996 and 2006 the USAF awarded POW Medals to USAAF T / Sgt Daniel Culler and Lt. Richard Pettit for illegal incarceration during World War II in prison camp Wauwilermoos, in neutral Switzerland.

The term Indian Peace Medals is most commonly associated with circular silver medallions distributed to Native American tribal representatives by representatives of the United States government.

" Indian Peace Medals " were often typically accompanied by a token of a flag of the colonial power conducting diplomatic negotiations with the tribe.

Two of the $ 20 Double Eagles were presented by the United States Mint to the U. S. National Numismatic Collection, and they were recently on display in the " Money and Medals Hall " on the third floor of the National Museum of American History.

The general distinction between Tokens from Medals is that medals ( both privately minted and minted by governments ,) primarily do not have an actual monetary amount or ' value ' but generally are a commemoration of people, ideals, or places.

Retiring as a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force in 1964 he was awarded one of the first three Joint Chiefs of Staff Commendation Medals by General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Three WACs were awarded Air Medals, including one in India for her work in mapping " the Hump ," the mountainous air route overflown by pilots ferrying lend-lease supplies to the Chinese Army.

In November 1844, the anonymously published popular science book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, written by Scottish journalist Robert Chambers, widened public interest in the concept of transmutation of species.

There was much less controversy than had greeted the 1844 publication Vestiges of Creation, which had been rejected by scientists, but had influenced a wide public readership into believing that nature and human society were governed by natural laws.

The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, authored by Robert Chambers in St Andrews and published anonymously in England in 1844, proposed a theory which combined radical phrenology with Lamarckism, causing political controversy for its radicalism and unorthodoxy, but exciting popular interest and preparing a huge and prosperous audience for Darwin.

The earliest usage of the term ' scientific romance ' is thought to be in 1845, by critics describing Robert Chambers ' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a speculative natural history published in 1844, and was used again in 1851 by the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review in reference to Thoman Hunt's Panthea, or the Spirit of Nature.

In this respect, he followed the model laid down by the Edinburgh publisher Robert Chambers in his anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation ( 1844 ).

The idea was popularised in the Anglophone world by the speculative, but widely read Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, published anonymously by Robert Chambers in 1844.

In writing the poem, Tennyson was influenced by the ideas of evolution presented in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation which had been published in 1844, and had caused a storm of controversy about the theological implications of impersonal nature functioning without direct divine intervention.

In November 1844 public controversy erupted over ideas of evolutionary progress in the anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a well written best-seller which widened public interest in transmutation.

* A Theory of Creation: A Review of ' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation authored by Robert Chambers in 1844 ' ( 1845 )

In order to further his history studies, Bălcescu went to France and Italy, and was, together with August Treboniu Laurian, the editor of a magazine entitled Magazin istoric pentru Dacia, which was first published in 1844 ; that year also marked the publishing ( in a different magazine ) of his historical essay Puterea armată şi arta militară de la întemeierea Prinţipatului Valahiei şi până acum (" The Military Strength and Art of Warfare from the Creation of the Wallachian Principality to This Day ", which argued for a strong military as a guarantee of self-determination ).

Late in 1844 the anonymous publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation popularised the idea of divinely ordered development of everything from stellar evolution to transmutation of species.

Darwin's book caused less controversy than he had feared, as the idea of evolution had been widely popularized in Victorian Britain by the 1844 publication of Vestiges of Creation.

Diagram from the 1844 book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers shows a model of development where fish ( F ), reptiles ( R ), and birds ( B ) represent branches from a path leading to mammals ( M ).

In 1844 the Scottish publisher Robert Chambers anonymously published an influential and extremely controversial book of popular science entitled Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is a work of speculative natural history and philosophy published anonymously in England in 1844.