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Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1841 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Dr. G. S. Ohm, of Nuremberg, for his researches into the 
Laws of Electric Currents, contained in various memoirs, published in Schweigger’s 
Journal, Poggendorff’s Annalen, and in a separate work, entitled “ Die galvanische 
Kette mathematisch bearbeitet.” 
The Royal Medal in the department of Chemistry, to Robert Kane, M.D., 
M.R.I.A., for his memoir entitled, “ The Chemical History of Archil and Litmus,” 
published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1840. 
The other Royal Medal, not having been awarded in the department of Mathe- 
matics, was awarded in that of Physics, to Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., F.R.S., for his 
Paper entitled, ‘‘Experimental Researches on the Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron 
and other Materials,” published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1840. 
