The Linnean Medal (formerly referred to as the Gold Medal) of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and is for the preceding years often referred to as "the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society".

Linnean Medalists

1888: Sir Joseph D. Hooker and Sir Richard Owen
1889: Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle
1890: Thomas Henry Huxley
1891: Jean Baptiste Édouard Bornet
1892: Alfred Russel Wallace
1893: Daniel Oliver
1894: Ernst Haeckel
1895: Ferdinand Julius Cohn
1896: George James Allman
1897: Jacob Georg Agardh
1898: George Charles Wallich
1899: John Gilbert Baker
1900: Alfred Newton