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J. O. Westwood Medal with Marsh Prize for Excellence in Insect TaxonomyCALL FOR NOMINATIONS
In response to the urgent need to expand and recognise the research effort in insect taxonomy and to encourage monographic revisionary work, the Royal Entomological Society and the Marsh Christian Trust jointly support an award for excellence in insect taxonomy each year.
Criteria: The best comprehensive taxonomic work on a group of insects, or, related arthropods (including terrestrial and freshwater hexapods, myriapods, arachnids and their relatives). Typically, this will be a taxonomic revision or monograph. Open to authors from any country who demonstrate the highest standards of descriptive taxonomy in the work nominated.
Prize: A specially struck silver gilt medal inscribed with the winners name and £1000 prize from the Marsh Christian Trust. Also costs incurred in attending the International Congress of Entomology, European Congress of Entomology, or other major meeting (specified by the adjudicators) to present their work.
Eligibility: Any individual or group whose work meets the criteria and who is/are living at the time the work is submitted for consideration.
Cycle: Annual, entries accepted up to 30th September in the year preceding the awarding year.
Adjudication: By a selection panel consisting of senior and international RES Fellows.
Entry: By nominating letter from the author(s) themselves or other nominator, accompanied by two letters of support and three copies of the work, sent to, Westwood Medal, Royal Entomological Society, The Mansion House, Chiswell Green Lane, St Albans, Herts, AL2 3NS, UK, or electronically to [email protected]
The award is named in honour of the leading 19th century British entomologist, John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893). Westwood was the inaugural holder of the Hope Chair of Entomology at the University of Oxford, when it was established by the Reverend F. W. Hope in 1863. Westwood was one of the original group of founding members of the then Entomological Society of London in 1833 and served as President for three separate periods, 1851-52, 1872-73 and 1876-77. In 1883 he was elected to the unique position of Honorary Life President of the Society. He was a prolific author and published on most groups of insects and illustrated his own works, and those of many others, with his exquisite drawings and paintings. It is particularly appropriate that our award should be dedicated to this early pioneer of insect taxonomy.
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