[Anon.], ‘The Great Exhibition Awards (Second Notice)’, Illustrated London News (1851)

Troughton and Simms merited the highest award it was in their power to confer. The secretary then read a letter from Sir John Herschel, in which that honourable baronet stated that he did not consider himself in any way responsible for the horological award. The authors are afraid that the imputation of unfair dealing boldly averred by the committee of watchmakers is but too well founded, as characterising not only the award in question, but many others which seem so palpably at variance with the real merits of the case. To recur to the pianoforte case, the authors have reason to believe that to the accidental absence of Lord Canning from the Council of Chairmen, which placed a distinguished foreigner in the chair, they have to attribute the refusal of the council medal to Messrs.