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February 11, 1847. 



A Special General Meeting of the Society was held this day at 

 2 o'clock, P.M., in accordance with the requisition presented on the 

 7th of January 1847. 



The MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, President, in the Chair. 



It was moved by Mr. Thomas Wharton Jones, and seconded by 

 Dr. Copland, — That it is the opinion of this Special General Meeting, 

 that the award of the Royal Medal for Physiology for 1845, was 

 made under circumstances characterized by great irregularity, and 

 in violation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's regulations, viz. " that 

 the Royal Medals be given for such papers only as have been pre- 

 sented to the Royal Society and inserted in their Transactions," and 

 that therefore the said award ought to be considered as null and 

 void ; upon which the following amendment was moved by Mr. 

 Gray and seconded by the Rev. R. Sheepshanks, — That whereas 

 the President of the Society has already expressed from the chair an 

 opinion on the irregularity which attended the award of the Royal 

 Medal in 1845, and whereas the Council issued new regulations with 

 regard to the Royal Medals as soon as they discovered that those 

 enacted in 1838 were inconsistent with the terms of the Royal Grant ; 

 it therefore does not seem expedient to the present meeting that any 

 further proceedings should be taken in the matter, which amend- 

 ment being put from the chair was carried. 



Upon the motion of Sir Robert Inglis, Bart., seconded by Sir 

 Roderick Impey Murchison, the thanks of the Society were voted to 

 the President, and the meeting was dissolved. 



