Medal, established 1978, on the 200th anniversary of the death of Linnaeus, "in recognition of work done by a person under the age of 40 years". Jill Smythies Award, established 1986, awarded for botanical illustrations. Linnean Gold Medal, For services to the society – awarded in exceptional circumstances, from 1988. Irene Manton Prize, established 1990, for the best dissertation in botany during an academic year. Linnean Tercentenary Medal, awarded in 2007 in celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus. John C Marsden Medal, established 2012, for the best doctoral thesis in biology examined during a single academic year. John Spedan Lewis Medal, established 2015, awarded to "an individual who is making a significant and innovative contribution to conservation". Sir David Attenborough Award for Fieldwork, established in 2015. Collections Linnaeus' botanical and zoological collections were purchased in 1783 by Sir James Edward Smith, the first president of the society, and are now held in London by the society. The collections include 14,000 plants, 158 fish, 1,564 shells, 3,198 insects, 1,600 books and 3,000 letters and documents. They may be viewed by appointment and there is a monthly tour of the collections. Smith's own plant collection of 27,185 dried specimens, together with his correspondence and book collection, is also held by the society. Other notable holdings of the society include the notebooks and journals of Alfred Russel Wallace and the paintings of plants and animals made by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829) in Nepal. In December 2014, the society's specimen, library, and archive collections were granted designated status by the Arts Council England, recognising collections of national and international importance (one of only 152 institutions so recognised as of 2020). Publications The Linnean Society began its extensive series of publications on 13 August 1791, when Volume I of Transactions was produced. Over the following centuries the society published a number of different journals, some of which specialised in more specific subject areas, whilst earlier publications were discontinued. Those still in publication include: the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, which covers the evolutionary biology of all organisms, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, which focuses on plant sciences, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society focusing on animal systematics and evolution. In 2022, the Society launched the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, its first fully open access scholarly publication. The Linnean is a biannual newsletter. It contains commentary on