Photography: India, The Photographic Society of India, copper award medal, by J. S. and A. B. Wyon, an Indian woman, semi-draped and seated, holds a folio, the arches of a building behind, rev. named within wreath (Awarded to T. H. Holland, Calcutta 1897, 51mm. (Pudd. I, 948.27.3), good very fine, reverse better
Sir Thomas Henry Holland, KCSI, KCIE, FRS, FRSE (1868–1947), geologist who worked for many years in India.
In 1890, Holland was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India becoming its Director in 1903. The following year he was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Estimate: 80 - 120 GBP