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in his two Papers published in the Philosophical Transactions within the last three 
years. 
The Council propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1839 to the most 
important unpublished Paper in Astronomy, communicated for insertion in their 
Transactions after the present date, (November 30th, 1836,) and prior to the ter- 
mination of the Session in June 1839. 
The Council also propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1839 to the 
most important unpublished Paper in Physiology, communicated for insertion in their 
Transactions after the present date, (November 30th, 1836,) and prior to the ter- 
mination of the Session in June 1839. 
The Council have appointed Mr. H. F. Talbot’s Paper, entitled “ Further Obser- 
“ vations on the Optical Phenomena of Crystals,” the Bakerian Lecture for the present 
year. 
