Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society by His 
Royal Highness the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal, for the year 1833, was not awarded. 
A Copley Medal, for the year 1834, to Professor Plana, of Turin, for his work, 
-entitled, “ Theorie du Mouvement de la Lune.” 
The Rumford Medal, for the year 1835, to M. Melloni, for his discoveries relative 
to Radiant Heat. 
A Copley Medal, for the year 1835, to William Snow Harris, Esq., F.R.S., for his 
“ Experimental Investigations of the Forces of Electricity of High Intensity,” con- 
tained in his paper published in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1834. 
A Copley Medal, for the year 1836, to Professor Berzelius, for his Systematic 
Application of the Doctrine of Definite Proportions to the Analysis of Mineral Bodies, 
as contained in his “ Nouveau Systeme de Mineralogie,” and in other of his works. 
A Copley Medal, for the year 1836, to Francis Kiernan, Esq., F.R.S., for his Dis- 
coveries relating to the Structure of the Liver, as detailed in his paper communicated 
to the Royal Society, and published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1833. 
A Copley Medal, for the year 1837, to M. Becquerel, for his various Memoirs on 
the subject of Electricity, published in his “Memoires de l’Academie Royale des 
Sciences de l’lnstitut de France,” and particularly those on the Production of Crystals 
of Metallic Sulphurets and Sulphur, by the long-continued action of Electricity of 
very low tension, and published in the tenth volume of those Memoires. 
Another Copley Medal, for the year 1837, to John Frederick DANiELL,Esq., F.R.S., 
for his two papers “ On Voltaic Combinations,” published in the Philosophical Trans- 
tions for 1836. 
The Royal Medal, in the department of Physics, for the year 1837, to the Rev. Wil- 
liam Whewell, M.A., F.R.S., for his “Researches connected with the Theory of the 
Tides,” communicated to the Royal Society, and published in its Transactions within 
the last three years. 
The Royal Medal, in the department of Geology, for the yearl837,was not awarded. 
The Council propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1838 for the most 
important unpublished paper on Chemistry, &c. 
The Council also propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1838 for the 
most important unpublished paper on Mathematics, &c. 
