Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1844 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor C. Matteucci of Pisa, for his various researches 
in Animal Electricity. 
The Royal Medal, in the department of Mathematics, to George Boole, Esq., 
for his Paper entitled “ On a general method in Analysis,” published in the Philoso- 
phical Transactions for 1844. 
The Royal Medal, in the department of Chemistry, to Thomas Andrews, M.D., 
for his Paper entitled “ On the thermal changes accompanying Basic Substitutions,” 
published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1844. 
The Paper appointed for the Bakerian Lecture in 1844, is Professor Owen’s, 
entitled “ A description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of 
their soft parts, in the Oxford clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts.” 
