Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Mining, First Empire Mining & Metallurgical Congress, London, 1924, a silver award medal by W. McMillan, arms of the Society of the Mines Royal, rev. legends, named (E.J. Weyland, Uganda), 50mm; Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon, a silver medal, awarded 1895, County arms, rev. mining implements, named on edge (F.T. Skinner), 45mm [2]. First with matt surface, both extremely fine £90-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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E.J. Wayland set up the first Geological Survey in East Africa, at Entebbe in Uganda. In the subsequent fifteen years Wayland made an outstanding contribution to knowledge of rift and basin development in the region. He conducted the first expeditions for petroleum exploration in the 1920s and these were documented in the 1925 publication Petroleum in Uganda. In 1933 he was awarded the Geological Society’s Bigsby Medal