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Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal is an award presented by the National Academy of Sciences every five years to promote research and study in the fields of Precambrian and Cambrian life and history. The medal was established and endowed in 1934 by the Walcott Fund a gift of Mary Vaux Walcott in honor of paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927).