Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1845 by 



the President and Council. 



The Copley Medal to Professor Thomas Schwann of Louvain, for his Physiolog^ical 

 Researches on the development of Animal and Vegetable Textures. 



The Royal Medal, in the department of Astronomy, to George Biddell Airy, Esq., 

 Astronomer Royal, for his Paper entitled " On the Laws of the Tides on the Coasts of 

 Ireland, as inferred from an extensive series of observations made in connexion with 

 the Ordnance Survey of Ireland," published in the Philosophical Transactions for 

 1845. 



The Royal Medal, in the department of Physiology, to Thomas Snow Beck, Esq., 

 for his Paper entitled "On the Nerves of the Uterus," communicated to the Society 

 in 1845, and ordered for publication in the Philosophical Transactions. 



The Paper appointed for the Bakerian Lecture in 1845, is Professor Daubenv's 

 Memoir, entitled " On the Rotation of Crops." 



