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The Royal Medals for the year 1833 were awarded to 
Sir JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL, K.H. F.R.S., 
for his Paper on the Investigation of the Orbits of Revolving Double Stars ; and to 
Professor AUGUSTE PYRAME DE CANDOLLE, of Geneva, Foreign Member 
of the Royal Society, 
for his Discoveries and Investigations in Vegetable Physiology. 
Those for 1834 were awarded to 
JOHN WILLIAM LUBBOCK, Esq., V.P. & Treas. R.S., 
for his Papers on the Tides published in the Philosophical Transactions ; and to 
CHARLES LYELL, Esq., F.R.S., 
for his Work entitled 44 Principles of Geology.” 
Those for 1835 were awarded to 
MICHAEL FARADAY, D.C.L., F.ll.S., 
for his Investigations and Discoveries contained in the Series of Experimental Re- 
searches in Electricity, published in the Philosophical Transactions, and more par- 
ticularly for the Seventh Series, relating to the definite nature of electro-chemical 
action ; and to 
Sir WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON, Andrews’ Professor of Astronomy in the 
University of Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland, 
for the Papers published by him in the 16th and 17 th volumes of the Transactions of 
the Royal Irish Academy, entitled 44 Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of 
44 Systems of Rays,” and more particularly for those Investigations at the conclusion 
of the third and last Supplement, which relate to the discovery of Conical Refraction. 
The Council propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1836, to the most 
important unpublished paper in Astronomy, communicated to the Royal Society for 
insertion in their Transactions, after the present date (May 13th, 1833,) and prior to 
the month of June in the year 1836. 
The Council also propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 1836 to the 
