The President and Council of the Royal Society adjudged the 
Medals for the year 1828 as follows. 
A Royal Medal to Professor Johann Friedrich Encke of Berlin, Foreign 
Member of the Royal Society, for his accurate determination of the orbit of a 
comet of short period, as confirmed by observation. 
A Royal Medal to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston, Fellow of the Royal 
Society, for his communication entitled “ On a method of rendering Platina 
malleable,” being the conclusion of a series of researches on the properties of 
the metallic bodies contained in the ores of platina. 
