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, the first Secretary of the Society. The last Wilkins lecture was delivered in 2003, after which it was merged with the Bernal Lecture and the Medawar Lecture to form the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.
List of recipients YearNameLectureNotes1948 John Wilkins and the Royal Society. —1949 Robert Hooke. —1950 The history of micro-dissection. —1952 Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S. —1955 Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher. —1958 The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution. —1961 The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection. —1964 Galileo today. —1967 Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society. —1970 The plain story of James Watt. —1973 Newton and his editors. —1976 Science, technology and education: England in 1870. —1979 On the local movement of animals. —1982 One hundred years after Charles Darwin. —1985 John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus. —1988 Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement. —1991 Bishop John Wilkins FRS. —1994 Edmond Halley as a historian of science. —1997 Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution. —2000 Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins. —2003 Dr Wilkins's boy wonders. —
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