Mark Blackburn (numismatist) Society (FRHistS). He was awarded the 2008 Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society. In 2008, he was awarded the John Sanford Saltus Medal by the British Numismatic Society. In 2011, he was awarded the Derek Allen Prize by the British Academy. Mark Blackburn (numismatist) Mark Alistair Sinclair Blackburn, (5 January 1953 – 1 September 2011) was a British numismatist and economic historian. He was Keeper of Coins and Medals at Fitzwilliam Museum from 1991 to 2011, Reader in Numismatics and Monetary History at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2011, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Collect Pond were present during the Collect Pond tests and in fact depicts both, as well as Fitch and himself, in a paddlewheel steam ship in the upper left quadrant of the broadside. Though Fulton seems to have received most of the credit for the era of steam navigation, Hutchings hoped, through the publication of this broadside, to shed some light on Fitch’s contributions as well. A plaque at the Collect Pond Park, however, states that though Fitch's account "is often repeated, no evidence has been found to substantiate the story." The contaminated wastewater of the businesses surrounding the pond flowed back