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insertion in their Transactions, after the present date and prior to the month of June 

 in the year 1836. 



The Council also propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1836 to the 

 most important unpublished paper in Animal Physiology, communicated to the Royal 

 Society for insertion in their Transactions, after the present date and prior to the 

 month of June in the year 1836. 



The Royal Medals for the year 1833 were awarded to 



Sir JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL, K.H. F.R.S., 



for his Paper on the Investigation of the Orbits of Revolving Double Stars ; and to 



Professor AUGUSTE PYRAME DE CANDOLLE, of Geneva, Foreign Member 



of the Royal Society, 



for his Discoveries and Investigations in Vegetable Physiology. 



Those for 1834 were awarded to 



JOHN WILLIAM LUBBOCK, Esq., V.P. & Treas. R.S., 

 for his Papers on the Tides published in the Philosophical Transactions ; and to 



CHARLES LYELL, Esq., 

 for his Work entitled " Principles of Geology." 



The Council propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1837 to the most 

 important unpublished paper in Physics, communicated to the Royal Society for 

 insertion in their Transactions, after the present date and prior to the month of 

 June in that year. 



The Council also propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1837 to the 

 author of the best paper, to be entitled " Contributions towards a System of Geo- 

 logical Chronology founded on an examination of fossil remains, and their attendant 

 phenomena," such paper to be communicated to the Royal Society after the present 

 date and prior to the month of June 1837. 



