International Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884, a silver award medal, unsigned [by J. Crichton, Edinburgh], un-named, 45mm (Brodie 295; cf. DNW M11, 1017); Scottish Arboricultural Society (Inst. 1854), award medals (5), in silver (3), all unsigned [by A. Kirkwood], named (George Cadell, Esq., for a Report on Forestry Administration in the Canton Vaud, Switzerland, 1887; Geo. Cadell, Esq., for report on the Beech Forests of Hesse-Nassau, 1890; W.H. Whellens, for Essay on Thorn Hedges, 1911), 59, 35 and 59mm, and in bronze (2), named (W.H. Whellens, for Essay on Fencing, 1906; W.H. Whellens for Gate Opener, Dumfries, 1910), 35 and 34mm (Brodie 156); The English Arboricultural Society, a silver award medal by C. & M. Crichton, Edinburgh, named (Mr George Cadell, London, for an Essay on ‘Foreign versus Native Timber’, 1900), 53mm; Alloa Burgh School Board Academy, a silver award medal by J. Younger, Alloa, named (Dux, William T. Buchan, Session 1903-04), 45mm (Brodie 516 var.); Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, silver award medals (3), all unsigned [by A. Kirkwood], named (W.H. Whellens, Essay on Soils, 1912; W.H. Whellens for Paper on Afforestation of Waste Land, 1917; W.H. Whellens for Paper on The Trees of Thoresby Park, 1917), 60, 60 and 35mm; Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, a bronze award medal, unsigned [by A. Kirkwood], named (Helen Harris, Electricity & Magnetism (Elem)., Session 1914-15), 48mm (Brodie 576); University of St Andrews, a bronze award medal, unsigned [by A. Kirkwood], named (Honours French, Florence Doreen Cullen, 1931-32), 52mm (Brodie 705); 150th Anniversary of the Dumfries and Maxwelltown Astronomical Society, 1986, a silver award medal by the Tower Mint, un-named, 38mm [14]. Alloa about very fine, others virtually as struck and in cases of issue, an attractive group
£150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Historical Medals from the Collection of the late David Perry.

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Provenance: First and Cadell medals bt Barbara Armstrong June and September 1981; Buchan medal bt A. Judd October 1995; last bt Dumfries Museum August 1986.

Last medal, only 20 struck in silver. George Cadell (1844-1909), a former Indian forester, was interviewed in McMillan’s Magazine, January 1888. W.H. Whellens, a leading forestry expert of his day and head forester at Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire, was commissioned by Earl Manvers in 1914 to write a plan for the management of Sherwood Forest