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THE King has approved the award of the Royal Medals of the Royal Geographical Society as follows: Founders Medal: Captain P. A. Clayton, for his surveys in the Libyan Desert and his application of this experience to desert warfare during recent operations; Patron's Medal: Dr. Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, for his travels in South America and for his great services to the science of geography while director of the American Geographical Society of New York. The Council of the Society has made the following awards: Murchison Grant: Mr. C. T. Madigan, for his explorations and research in Central Australia; Back Grant: Mr. Alfred Stephenson, for his surveys in south-east Greenland and in Graham Land; Cuthbert Peek Grant: Mr. Marcel Aurousseau, for his valuable services as secretary of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names; Gill Memorial; Captain F. Spencer Chapman, for his exploration of high peaks in Sikkim and Tibet.
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Royal Geographical Society Awards. Nature 147, 478 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147478b0
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