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Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1854 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Johannes Muller, for his important contributions 
to different branches of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, and particularly for 
his researches on the Embryology and Structure of the Echinodermata, contained in 
a series of memoirs published in the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences 
of Berlin. 
A Royal Medal to Dr. Hofmann, F.R.S., for his researches in Organic Chemistry. 
A Royal Medal to Dr. Hooker, F.R.S., for his researches in various branches of 
science, especially in Botany, as Naturalist of the Antarctic Expedition of Sir James 
Ross, and in an Expedition to the eastern part of the Himalaya Range, of which 
researches part has been published in works entitled, “ The Antarctic Flora” and 
“ The Flora of New Zealand,” and in various other communications, and part is now 
in course of publication. 
The Rumford Medal to Dr. Neil Arnott, F.R.S., author of various contributions 
to the elucidation of the principles and improvement of the practice of heating and 
ventilation, for the successful construction of a new smoke-consuming and fuel-saving 
fire-grate, described in the Journal of the Society of Arts of May 12, 1854. 
The Bakerian Lecture for 1854 was delivered by Thomas Graham, Esq., F.R.S., 
and entitled, “ On Osmotic Force.” 
