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H.M. THE KING has approved the award of the Royal Medals for 1948 of the Royal Geographical Society as follow : Founder‘s Medal, to Mr. Wilfred Thesiger, for his contributions to the geography of southern Arabia and for his recent crossings of the Southern Arabian desert, the Rub al Khali ; Patron‘s Medal, to Mr. Thomas H. Manning, of the Geodetic Survey of Canada, for his explorations and survey work in the Canadian Arctic, including the mapping of Southampton Island and the Foxe Basin shores of Baffin Island, and for his successful adaptation of Eskimo methods of travel. The Council of the Society has made the following awards : Victoria Medal, to Prof. Frank Debenham, professor of geography in the University of Cambridge, for his work in geographical education and for his contributions to polar geography and exploration in the Antarctic and as first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge. Murchison Grant, to Mr. Robert W. Steel, lecturer in Colonial geography at the University of Oxford, for geographical work on the West African Ashanti Social Survey, 1945–46. Back Grant, to Mr. Alan J. Marshall, for exploratory and scientific work as leader of the Oxford University Exploration Club Expedition to Jan Mayen Island, 1947. Cuthbert Peek Grant, to Dr. Donald F. Thomson, for his explorations and anthropological studies in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Gill Memorial, to Mr. William W. Williams, lecturer in geography at the University of Cambridge, for original research during the War on the determination of underwater beach gradients.
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Royal Geographical Society : Awards for 1948. Nature 161, 553 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161553b0
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