60mm. By R Benard.
Fourth International Genetics Congress, Paris. Obverse with bust of Gregor Mendel, reverse with foliage around tablet named to W. Wilks.
Extremely Fine and accompanied by half of the circular cardboard case of issue. Rare.
Reverend William Wilks (1843-1923) was a notable British horticulturalist and clergyman. He served as secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1888 to 1919 and, as editor of its journal, he was instrumental in getting the work of Gregor Mendel translated and published in English for the first time in 1901.