at Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey by Dawes and Anthony Thwaite (the Society's president). Works Dawes's 1956 textbook Quantitative Problems in Biochemistry was translated into 6 languages, and remained in print in Japan. Reviews of its 1972 5th edition noted that it had "become a classic for many honours students and teachers of bio-chemistry" with its text "outstanding for being concise yet clear. Its 1980 6th edition was considered as "disappointing" by two reviewers due to its abbreviated content and insufficient coverage of developments in the field, however another reviewer would recommend it without hesitation "as a valuable teaching and reference resource". His 1986 textbook Microbial Energetics was aimed at the advanced undergraduate, with chapters on "microbial reserve compounds analogous to starch and glycogen of higher cells" deemed "especially authoritative and up-to-date", and with a writing style which "affords considerable pleasure simply by the manner in which the material is presented". Magic Dawes was President of the Scottish Conjurers' Association from 1959 to 1963, and edited its magazine from 1958 to 1962. Dawes also edited the magazine for the Scottish Association of Magical Societies (SAMS), the national organisation for magical clubs in Scotland. He is President of the Hull Magicians Circle, and historian for The Magic Circle. Dawes is a multi-award-winning historian of magic, and is likely to have been the most prolific. His writings, which have been noted for consistently excellent scholarship and engaging prose, include The Great Illusionists, The Encyclopedia of Magic with Arthur Setterington, a number of monographs, and hundreds of articles including (since 1972) his long-running "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities" monthly column in The Magic Circular. With Amy Dawes In magic shows, his wife Amy () performed both as his assistant and in her own right. She was a domestic science student during his studies at Leeds, and subsequently became a teacher in Glasgow. They married on 19 December 1950, and had two sons. The couple developed Only Make-Believe: A Plethora of Prestidigitation, an award-winning stage show, in which they performed as Professor Bluffman and Madame Patrice. Amy Dawes died on 30 December 2014, aged 85. Awards and honours 2017 – Gold Medal from The Magic Circle for "exemplary service to the Society or exceptional magical ability or both". Dawes was only the ninth recipient since 1926. 2016 – Special Fellowship from the Academy of Magical Arts. 2010 – John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (with