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THE King has approved the award of the Royal Medals of the Royal Geographical Society as follows: Founder's Medal to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ingrams, for their exploration, travel, and studies in the Hadhramaut; Patron's Medal to Lieutenant Alexander R. Glen, for his expeditions in Spitsbergen and North-East Land. The Council has made the following awards: Victoria Medal to Mr. O. G. S. Crawford, for his archaeological maps prepared for the Ordnance Survey and his work on the Tabula Imperil Romani; Murchison Grant to Mr. Peter Mott, for his surveys in West Greenland; Back Grant to Mr. Gerald Seligman, for his glacier studies on the Jungfraujoch; Cuthbert Peek Grant to Mr. John Hanbury-Tracy, for his work in south-eastern Tibet with Mr. Kaulback and his journey in the north of South America; Gill Memorial to Mr. Alexander King, for his work in Jan Mayen in 1938.
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Royal Geographical Society Awards. Nature 145, 665 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145665d0
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