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THE KING has been pleased to approve the award of the Royal medals of the Royal Geographical Society as follows:—Founder's medal to Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for his distinguished services to the Dominion of Canada in the exploration of the Arctic Ocean; and Patron's medal to Gen. Bourgeois, Senator for Alsace, Membre de 1'Institut, for his long and eminent services to geography and geodesy as Director of the Service géographique de 1'Armée, and president of the Conference Internationale de la Carte du Monde au Millionieme. The council has made the other awards of the society as follows:—The Murchison grant to Comdt. Maury, for his surveys in the Belgian Congo; the Back grant to Miss Marion Newbigin, for her contribution to geography, particularly of the Balkans; the Cuthbert Peek grant to Capt. J. B. L. Noel, for his reconnaissance of the eastern approaches to Mount Everest and other geographical work; and the Gill memorial to Lt.-Col. M. N. MacLeod, R.E., for his contribution to the theory of survey from air photographs.
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Notes. Nature 107, 178–182 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107178a0
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