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Founded on May 22 1967 by the Primate Group of the Zoological Society of London

Founding Council:

J.R. Napier (President), R.P. Michael (Hon.Sec.), R.J. Andrew (Hon.Treasurer),

E.H. Ashton, L.D. Brookes,  C.R. Cold, P. Cotes, J.H. Crook, J. Davies,

R.N. T-W-Fiennes, R.A. Hinde, G.H. Manley, I. Rowlands, A.C. Warren, L. Weiskrantz

Past Presidents:

1967 - 1970  J.R. Napier
1970 - 1973  R.P. Michael
1973 - 1976  R.N. T-W-Fiennes .
1976 - 1979  M.H. Day
1979 - 1982  R.D. Martin
1982 - 1986  D.J. Chivers

1986 - 1969  B. Wood

1989 - 1993  R.I.M. Dunbar

1993 - 1996  H.O. Box

1998 - 2001  P.C. Lee

2001 - 2005  R. Barton

Past Secretaries:

1967 - 1970 R.P. Michael
1970 - 1974 K.R. Hobbs
1974 - 1975 V. Reynolds
1975 - 1978 R.D. Martin
1978 - 1981 A.F. Dixson
1981 - 1985 S.K. Bearder

1985 - 1987 H.O. Box

1987 - 1990 R.C. Hubrecht

1990 - 1993 P.C. Lee

1993 - 1996 C. Ross

1996 - 1999 H. Buchanan-Smith

1999  - 2005 J. Lycett

Past Treasurers:

1967 - 1970 R.J. Andrew

1970 - 1974 A. Jolly

1974 - 1977 D.J. Chivers

1977 - 1980 E.B. Keveme

1980 - 1984 L. Aiello

1984 - 1987 A. MacLamon

1987 - 1990 S. Kingsley

1990 - 1994 R. Crompton

1994 - 1998 G.R. Hosey

1998 - 2002 C. Evans
2002 - 2008 R. Hill

Past Editors:

1974 - 1977 N.R. Chalmers
1977 - 1993 J.C. Ingram

1993 -1996 D. Brandon-Jones

1996 - 2006 W. Sellers

Osman Hill Memorial Lecturers (established 1977):

1978  M.H. DAY - Human evolution: fossils and concepts
1980  R.A. HINDE - Primatology and the social sciences
1982  F. BOURLIERE - The niches of primates within tropical rain-forest
1984  P.M. BUTLER - Problems of dental evolution in the higher primates
1986  J.P. HEARN - Early embryonic development in monkeys and man
1988  H. KUMMER - Exploring primate social cognition: where do we stand?
1990  R.D. MARTIN - Goeldi and the dwarves: evolutionary biology of the small New World monkeys
1992  J.H. CROOK - Ecology and culture in the adaptive radiation of Tibetan-speaking peoples in the Himalayas
1994  R.I.M. DUNBAR - A general theory of primate social systems
1996  T. ROWELL - The myth of peculiar primates
1998  C.B. STRINGER - The origin of our species
2000  A.F. DIXSON - Primate comparative anatomy and the evolution of reproduction
2002  I. TATTERSALL - Becoming human
2004  C. VAN SCHAIK - Correlated evolution between cognitive and cultural abilities
2006  A. JOLLY - Survival in a forest fragment: Ringtailed lemurs of Berenty
2008  W.C. MCGREW - Chasing chimpanzee culture

Napier Memorial Medal Winners (established 1991):

1991  CHRISTOPHER PRYCE: Endocrine and social correlates of maternal behaviour in callitrichids
1993  MARTA LAHR: The origins of modem humans: A test of the multiregional hypothesis
1995  CARLOS DREWS: Psychological warfare and the management of relationships between male baboons
1996  NICOLA KOYAMA: Reconciliation behaviour in wild Japanese macaques
1999  MARK COLLARD: Morphological evolution of the hominoids and papionins: implications for palaeoanthropological cladistics
2001  RUSSELL HILL: Ecological and demographic determinants of time budgets in baboons: implications for cross-population models of      baboon socioecology
2003  SUSANNE SHULTZ: Of monkeys and eagles: predator-prey interactions in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
2005  CORRI WATT: Facial attractiveness among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): manipulating and measuring preferences for       conspecifics' facial characteristics.
2007  ANNIKA PAUKNER: Secondary representational abilities in nonhuman primates (Macaca nemestrina, Cebus apella).

Occasional Medal Winners (established 1996):

1996  JANE GOODALL CBE: Cultural transmission among chimpanzees and conservation (Conservation Medal)
2007  CYRIL ROSEN: Conservation Medal
2008  STEPHEN NASH: Special Contributions to Primatology

Charles Lockwood Medal Winners (established 2009):

2009  CLAIRE SANTORELLI - Vocal traditions in communities of wild spider monkeys