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THE Mueller Medal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science was presented to Dr. R. J. Tillyard, Chief Commonwealth Entomologist, at the recent annual meeting of the Royal Society of Australia held at Canberra. This medal, which was established in 1896 by a group of scientific workers in Victoria, commemorates the services to Australia of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, and is the premier award in the gift of Australian men of science. According to the Canberra Times, Dr. A. B. Walkom, general secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Association, made the presentation. In his address, he recalled the names of previous recipients of the Mueller Medal, among whom have been J. H. Maiden, Leonard Cockayne, W. Howchin, Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir Edgeworth David and Prof. Wood Jones. Dr. Tillyard, he said, has many notable investigations to his credit; in particular, he has studied the biology of the dragon-flies, the wing venation of insects and the determination and classification of fossil insects. He has also published a valuable and comprehensive textbook on the insects of Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Tillyard's work in entomology, in both New Zealand and Australia, has been of outstanding value, establishing principles and facts of wide interest and great importance.
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Award of the Mueller Medal to Dr. R. J. Tillyard, F.R.S. Nature 135, 835 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135835a0
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