1851–1900 1851 Adam Sedgwick 1852 William Henry Fitton 1853 Adolphe d’Archaic 1853 Edouard de Verneuil 1854 Richard John Griffith 1855 Henry De la Beche 1856 William Edmond Logan 1857 Joachim Barrande 1858 Hermann von Meyer 1859 Charles Darwin 1860 Searles Valentine Wood 1861 Heinrich Georg Bronn 1862 Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen 1863 Gustav Bischof 1864 Roderick Murchison 1865 Thomas Davidson 1866 Charles Lyell 1867 George Poulett Scrope 1868 Carl Friedrich Naumann 1869 Henry Clifton Sorby 1870 Gerard Paul Deshayes 1871 Andrew Ramsay 1872 James Dwight Dana 1873 Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton 1874 Oswald Heer 1875 Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck 1876 Thomas Henry Huxley 1877 Robert Mallet 1878 Thomas Wright 1879 Bernhard Studer 1880 Auguste Daubrée 1881 Peter Martin Duncan 1882 Franz Ritter von Hauer 1883 William Thomas Blanford 1884 Albert Jean Gaudry 1885 George Busk 1886 Alfred Des Cloizeaux 1887 John Whitaker Hulke 1888 Henry Benedict Medlicott 1889 Thomas George Bonney 1890 William Crawford Williamson 1891 John Wesley Judd 1892 Ferdinand von Richthofen 1893 Nevil Story Maskelyne 1894 Karl Alfred von Zittel 1895 Archibald Geikie 1896 Eduard Suess 1897 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston 1898 Ferdinand Zirkel 1899 Charles Lapworth 1900 Grove Karl Gilbert