Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1853 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, for his work “ On the Distribu- 
tion of Heat over the Surface of the Earth.” 
The Royal Medal to Charles Darwin, Esq., for his works entitled “ Geological 
Observations on Coral Reefs,” “ Volcanic Islands,” and on “ South America and his 
work, “Fossil Cirrhipeda of Great Britain, Section Lepadidse, Monograph of the 
Cirrhipeda.” 
(The second Royal Medal was not awarded.) 
The Bakerian Lecture for 1853 was delivered by Colonel Sabine, V.P.R.S., and 
entitled “On the Influence of the Moon on the Magnetic Declination at Toronto, 
St. Helena, and Hobarton.” 
