| Administrative History | Two weeks before his death, Dr William Hyde Wollaston invested £1000 in trust, the dividends of which were to be used by the Geological Society to promote researches concerning the mineral structure of the Earth, or of the science of geology in general. The first year's income was used by the Council to purchase a die for a medal bearing the head of Wollaston. The first Wollaston medal, was given to William Smith in 1831. |