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ROYAL SOCIETY. 

 [Continued from vol. xxxiii. p. 551.] 

 Anniversary Meeting, November 30, 1 848. 

 The Marquis of Northampton, President, in the Chair. 

 The President, after returning thanks to the Royal Society for 

 the honour conferred on him for ten yeare, delivered the Medals 

 with the following words : — 



Mr. Galloway, 



I deliver this Royal Medal to you with great satisfaction, for your 

 communication on one of the most interesting and difficult problems 

 in Astronomy, the proper motion in space of our system ; specula- 

 tions which may almost seem too mighty and daring for the human 

 intellect. 



One who, like yourself, has entered on such a path of discovery, 

 is not likely to turn from it. In further pursuing it, I feel assured 

 that your zeal for the prosperity of the Royal Society will induce 

 you to enrich our Transactions with other communications. Should 

 my hopes prove well-founded, though my successor will, from his 

 own pursuits, be much better able than myself to appreciate your 

 labours, he will not be able to hail them with greater pleasure than 

 myself. 



Mr. Hargreave, 



I am glad to deliver into your hands this Royal Medal for the 

 mathematical paper with which you have enabled the Council to 

 adorn the Philosophical Transactions. 



It is a paper, from its nature indeed, more suited for the attentive 

 study of the closet, than for reading before an audience, however 

 scientific, but it is not on that account less valuable. 



Mathematical analysis is doubly important : important in itself, 

 and important as one of the great instruments of philosophical in- 

 vestigation. Every extension of it must then be at all times most 

 highly welcome to a Society founded for the advancement of natural 

 knowledge, and I, therefore, in its name, tender its thanks and an 

 expression of the hope that it will not be the last communication that 

 we shall receive at your hands. 

 Mr. Adams, 



It is a great pleasure to me to be the channel by which the 

 Council of the Royal Society gives you this Copley Medal. 



In their award, I am sure that they have not done more than 

 justice to the scientific zeal, industry, and skill exerted by you in 

 the search of the great and distant body that caused the perturba- 

 tions of the planet Uranus, a search crowned with success, both in 

 your case and in that of your illustrious friend Le Verrier. 



If he be an honour to his nation, not the less so are you to En- 

 gland ; if he is a worthy follower of La Place, not less so are you of 

 Newton. His name and yours will remain iraperishably united in 

 the annals of the glorious science which you both cultivate with so 

 much zeal and so much success. 



