The Australian Natural History Medallion is awarded each year by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) to the person judged to have made the most meritorious contribution to the understanding of Australian Natural History. The idea originated with J. K. Moir, a book collector and member of the Bread and Cheese Club. Moir wrote to the FNCV in 1939 suggesting that such a medallion should be awarded to a person who had performed, in his words, ‘a signal service’ to the protection of flora and fauna—‘a variation of the Nobel awards’. Nominations for the Medallion are made by field naturalist clubs and kindred bodies from all over Australia, each nomination being valid for a three-year period. The Medallion has usually been awarded annually since 1940. In that time, recipients have been honoured for their work in many fields of natural history studies, and have come from every state and territory in Australia. The list of Medallionists and the year of the award is as follows: 1940 – Alexander Hugh Chisholm 1941 – Frederick Chapman 1942 – David Fleay 1943 – Herbert Ward Wilson 1944 – John McConnell Black 1945 – Charles P. Mountford 1946 – Heber A. Longman 1947 – Philip Crosbie Morrison 1948 – Ludwig Glauert 1949 – Edith Coleman 1950 – Bernard C. Cotton 1951 – Tarlton Rayment 1952 – John Burton Cleland 1953 – Charles Leslie Barrett 1954 – Herman M. R. Rupp 1955 – Stanley R. Mitchell 1956 – Dominic Louis Serventy 1957 – Charles Ernest William Bryant 1958 – Charles J. Gabriel 1959 – Keith Alfred Hindwood 1960 – James Hamlyn Willis 1961 – Emil H. Zeck 1962 – Norman Arthur Wakefield 1963 – Thistle Y. Stead 1964 – Winifred Waddell 1965 – Roy Wheeler 1966 – J. Ros Garnet 1967 – Gilbert P. Whitley 1968 – Norman Barnett Tindale 1969 – Charles Austin Gardner 1970 – Jean Galbraith 1971 – Alexander Clifford Beauglehole 1972 – Allen Axel Strom 1973 – Edmund D. Gill 1974 – Vincent Serventy 1975 – Alison M. Ashby 1976 – Winifred M. Curtis 1977 – John Russell (Jack) Wheeler 1978 – Allan Roy Sefton 1979 – Helen Aston 1980 – Michael Tyler 1981 – Elizabeth Marks 1982 – Howard Jarman 1983 – Trevor Pescott 1984 – Kevin Keneally 1985 – Jack Hyett 1986 – Graham Pizzey 1987 – Robert G. H. Green 1988 – John Dell 1989 – Bruce A. Fuhrer OAM 1990 – Ellen McCulloch 1991 – Fred J. C. Rogers 1992 – Enid L. Robertson 1993 – Alan J. Reid 1994 – Joan Cribb 1995 – W. Rodger Elliott 1996 – Ken N.G. Simpson 1997 – Geoffrey Monteith 1998 – Peter W. Menkhorst 1999 – Mary P. Cameron 2000 – Malcolm Calder 2001 – Alan B. Cribb 2002 – Ian D. Endersby 2003 – Clive Dudley Thomas Minton 2004 – David Lindenmayer 2005 – Pauline Reilly 2006 – Ian Fraser 2007 – Jeanette Covacevich 2008 – Ern Perkins 2009 – Richard Shine AM 2010 – Don P. A. Sands OAM 2011 – John Woinarski 2012 – No award made 2013 – Marilyn Hewish 2014 – Tom May 2015 – Margaret MacDonald 2016 – Max S. Moulds OAM 2017 – Paul Adam 2018 – Sarah Lloyd 2019 – Simon Grove 2020 – Craig Morley 2021 – Peter Latz 2022 – Genevieve Gates Source: Wikipedia (en)