Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1841 by 



the President and Council. 



The Copley Medal to Dr. G. S. Ohm, of Nuremberg, for his researches into the 

 Laws of Electric Currents, contained in various memoirs, published in Schweiggeb's 

 Journal, Poggendorff's Annalen, and in a separate work, entitled " Die galvanische 



Kette mathematisch bearbeitet." 



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The Royal Medal in the department of Chemistry, to Robert Kane, M.D., 

 M.R.I.A., for his memoir entitled, " The Chemical History of Archil and Litmus," 

 published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1840. 



The other Royal Medal, not having been awarded in the department of Mathe- 

 matics, was awarded in that of Physics, to Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., F.R.S., for his 

 Paper entitled, " Experimental Researches on the Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron 

 and other Materials," published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1840. 



