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IN February 1925 the residuary trust funds of the estate of the 1ate Dr. Conway Evans, medical officer for the Strand district, who died in 1892, were transferre to the president of the Royal Society and the president of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and their successors in office, that in accordance with the terms of his bequest they “shall apply the same in giving rewards to such person or persons who, in the opinion of the Presidents, have rendered, or shall from time to time render, some valuable contribution or addition to science as it exists at the time of my death, either by invention, discovery, or other-wise.” In accordance with this trust, the president of the Royal Society and the president of the Royal College of Physicians of London have made the first award of the Conway Evans Prize, amounting to 500 guineas, to Sir Charles Sherrington, on the ground that his work on the physiology of the nervous system, and chiefly on the physiology of the brain and spinal cord of the higher animals, has brought many complex nervous functions for the first time within the range of investigation and analysis. His discoveries have had a profound influence throughout the world on the experimental sciences of physiology and psychology and have thrown a flood of new light on many of the symptoms of nervous disease. In making this first award for some valuable contribution to science as it existed at the time of the death of the testator, the presidents of the Royal Society and of the Royal College of Physicians state that they have had no hesitation in selecting as conspicuously worthy of such recognition the work of Sir Charles Sherrington, which they believe to be of outstanding value for science and for humanity.
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News and Views. Nature 120, 811–816 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120811a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120811a0