Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1860 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, of Heidelberg, Foreign 
Member of the Royal Society, for his Researches on Cacodyl, Gaseous Analysis, the Vol- 
canic Phenomena of Iceland, and other Researches. 
A Royal Medal to Mr. William Fairbairn, F.R.S., for his various Experimental 
Inquiries on the Properties of the Materials employed in Mechanical Construction, con- 
tained in the Philosophical Transactions and in the Publications of various Scientific 
Societies. 
A Royal Medal to Dr. Augustus V. Waller, F.R.S., for liis Investigations into the 
Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System, and for the introduction of a valuable 
Method of conducting such investigations. 
The Rumford Medal to Professor . 1 . Clerk M^vxwell, for his Researches on the 
Composition of Colours, and other Optical Papers. 
Tlie B.akerian Lecture was delivered by Mr. William Fairbairn, F.R.S., and 
entitled “ Experimental Researches to determine the Density of Steam at all Tem- 
peratures, and to determine the Law of Expansion of Superheated Steam.” 
The Croonian Lecture was delivered by Mr. James Pettigrew, and entitled “ On 
the Arrangement of the Muscular Fibres of the Ventricular Portion of the Heart of the 
Mammal.” 
