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Names. Sate of discovery. 



Iris , 1847. August 13. 



Flora 1847. October 18. 



Victoria 1850. September 13. 



Irene 1851. May 19. 



Melpomene 1852. June 24. 



Fortuna 1852. August 22. 



Calliope 1852. November 16. 



Thalia 1852. December 15. 



Euterpe 1853. November 8. 



Urania 1854. July 22. 



MR. HIND, 



Accept this Medal, which the Royal Society presents to you, by an 

 award which every astronomer will heartily confirm ; and I may add 

 our best wishes that length of years and renovated health may enable 

 your enthusiastic zeal and high talents to render further aid to 

 science, to discharge, with ever-augmenting fame, the duties of the 

 responsible office which you occupy, and to reap additional honours 

 for yourself and country. 



MR. WESTWOOD, 



I have the pleasure to inform you that the Council of the Royal 

 Society have awarded to you one of the Royal Medals, on account of 

 your valuable and long-continued researches in Entomology. The 

 Council have been led to this decision from the fact that you have 

 not confined your attention to any one region of the world, or to any 

 one class of insects, extensive as these classes are, but have 

 grappled with the whole subject. Besides a large amount of system- 

 atic work, you have particularly attended to the general principles 

 of classification, and to the various kinds of affinity by which all 

 organic beings are so curiously connected together ; and in your 

 study of different groups of insects you have carefully observed their 

 habits, economy, metamorphoses and geographical distribution. 



It is now nearly thirty years since you commenced the long series 

 of papers which are well known to naturalists, not only of this 

 country, but abroad ; and that your writings have been appreciated 

 on the Continent has been shown by their frequent translation. 



Among your earlier labours, it is enough to refer to your well- 



