Diver search

Mar 17 2008

A team of divers is to search off the Cornish coast for a rare medal awarded by Napoleon Bonaparte to English scientist Humphry Davy - which was later thrown into the sea by his widow.

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is planning to arrange for an archaeological dive within the next two or three weeks in a bid to find the medal, given for Davy's services to science.

The award was said to have been hurled into Mounts Bay, west Cornwall, by his widow Jane, who had travelled to France with her husband to collect it.