150 Royal Society: Anniversary Proceedings for 1835. 
Juan Fernandez, a basaltic mass 360 miles distant from the coast ; as 
was shown by the sudden elevation and subsidence of the sea, which 
at one time rose 15 feet above the usual level, carrying all before it. 
Anniversary Meeting, Nov. 30th, 1835.—John William Lubbock, 
Esq. V.P. and Treasurer, in the Chair. 
After the transaction of certain formal business the Secretary 
read the Report, from which the following are extracts : 
“The Council have to report the following statement of their pro- 
ceedings during the past year, as far as they relate to matters of ge- 
neral interest to the Society. 
*“« By an arrangement made with the Trustees of the British Mu- 
seum, a sum of 165/. has been placed at the disposal of the Library — 
Committee for the purchase of books, in consideration of a grant by 
the Society to the British Museum of fifty-five volumes of Oriental 
Manuscripts. 
“The printing of the classed Catalogue, under the direction of 
Mr. Panizzi, is in great forwardness, and will soon be completed. 
“The Council have the satisfaction of reporting, that the Com- 
mittee appointed, in compliance with the wishes of the Lords Com- 
missioners of His Majesty’s ‘Treasury, and of the Honourable Board 
of Excise, for the purpose of giving their opinion on the construction 
of instruments and tables for ascertaining the strength of spirits, in 
reference to the charge of duty thereon, have nearly completed their 
labours, and will very shortly be ready with their Report. 
“The Copley Medal for the present year has been awarded to 
William Snow Harris, Esq., for his ‘ Experimental Investigations of 
the Forces of Electricity of high Intensity,’ contained in his paper 
published in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1834 
(p. 213; Proceedings, p. 277. No. 16.) 
«One of the Royal Medals for the present year has been awarded 
to Michael Faraday, Esq., for his investigations and discoveries con- 
tained in the series of ‘ Experimental Researches in Electricity,’ pub- 
lished in the Philosophical Transactions, and more particularly for the 
Seventh Series, relating to the definite nature of Electro-chemical Ac- 
tion. (Phil. Trans. for 1834, p. 77; and Proceedings, p. 261, No. 15.) 
«The other Royal Medal for the present year has been awarded 
to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Andrews Professor of Astronomy 
in the University of Dublin, for the papers published by him in the 
16th and 17th volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Irish Aca- 
demy, entitled ‘ Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of Systems 
of Rays,’ and more particularly for those investigations at the con- 
clusion of the third and last Supplement, whick relate to the disco- 
very of Conical Refraction. 
“The Council propose, in the year 1838, to give one of the Royal 
Medals to the most important unpublished paper on Chemistry, and 
the other Medal to the most important unpublished paper on Mathe- 
matics, which shall have been communicated to the Royal Society 
for publication in its Transactions, after the present date and prior 
to the month of June 1838. 
The Secretary also read the following List of Fellows deceased 
since the last Anniversary : viz. 
On the Home List.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester ; 
