Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1851 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Owen, for his important discoveries in Compa- 
rative Anatomy and Palaeontology, contained in the Philosophical Transactions and 
numerous other works. 
The Royal Medal in the department of Astronomy, to The Earl of Rosse, for 
his Observations on the Nebulae,” published in the Philosophical Transactions for 
the year 1850. 
The Royal Medal in the department of Physiology, to George Newport, Esq., 
for his paper “On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia” (First Series), 
published in the Philosophical Transactions for the year 1851. 
