Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1846 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to U. J. Le Verrier, for his investigations relative to the 
disturbances of Uranus, by which he proved the existence and predicted the place 
of the new Planet. 
The Rumford Medal to Michael Faraday, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., for his discovery 
of the Optical Phenomena developed by the action of Magnets and Electric Currents 
in certain Transparent Media, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1846. 
The Royal Medal in the department of Physics, to Michael Faraday, Esq., 
LL.D., F.R.S., for his Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twentieth and 
Twenty-first Series. — On new Magnetic Actions, and on the Magnetic Conditions of 
all Matter, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1846. 
No recommendation of the Royal Medal in the department of Geology having 
been received, it was awarded to Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S., for his paper entitled 
“ A Description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their 
soft parts, in the Oxford Clay,” published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1844. 
The paper appointed for the Bakerian Lecture for the year 1846, is Professor 
Forbes’s “ Illustrations of the Viscous Theory of Glacier Motion.” 
