The Wilkins Lecture was a lecture organised by the Royal Society of London on the subject of the history of science and named after John Wilkins

John Wilkins

John Wilkins FRS was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, as well as a founder of the Invisible College and one of the founders of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death....

, the first Secretary of the Society. The last Wilkins lecture was delivered in 2003, after which it was merged with the Bernal Lecture

Bernal Lecture

The Bernal Lecture was an annual lecture on the social function of science organised by the Royal Society of London and endowed by Professor John Desmond Bernal. It was last delivered in 2004, after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar...

 and the Medawar Lecture

Medawar Lecture

The Medawar Lecture was an annual lecture on the philosophy of science organised by the Royal Society of London in memory of Sir Peter Medawar. It was last delivered in 2004 after which it was merged with the Wilkins Lecture and the Bernal Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture. - List...

 to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture

Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture

The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture is a public lecture organised annually by the Royal Society of London. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of the Wilkins Lecture, the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture...

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List of recipients

Year	Name	Lecture	Notes
1948

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|1949|| || Robert Hoke.||align=center| —
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|1950|| || The history of micro-dissection.||align=center| —
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|1952|| || Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S.||align=center| —
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|1955|| || Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher.||align=center| —
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|1958|| || The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution.||align=center| —
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|1961|| || The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection.||align=center| —
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|1964|| || Galileo today.||align=center| —
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|1967|| || Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society.||align=center| —
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|1970|| || The plain story of James Watt.||align=center| —
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|1973|| || Newton and his editors.||align=center| —
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|1976|| || Gowing Science, technology and education: England in 1870.||align=center| —
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|1979|| || On the local movement of animals.||align=center| —
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|1982|| || One hundred years after Charles Darwin.||align=center| —
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|1985|| || John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus.||align=center| —
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|1988|| || Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement.||align=center| —
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|1991|| || Bishop John Wilkins FRS.||align=center| —
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|1994|| || Edmond Halley as a historian of science.||align=center| —
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|1997|| || Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution.||align=center| —
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|2000|| || Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins.||align=center| —
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|2003|| || Dr Wilkins's boy wonders.||align=center| —
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