Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1848 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to John Couch Adams, Esq., for his “ Investigations relative 
to the disturbances of Uranus, and for his application of the inverse problem of per- 
turbations thereto.” 
The Royal Medal in the department of Astronomy, to Thomas Galloway, Esq., 
for his Paper “ On the Proper Motion of the Solar System,” published in the Philo- 
sophical Transactions for 1 847- 
No recommendation of the Royal Medal in the department of Physiology having 
been received, this Medal was awarded to Charles James Hargreave, Esq., for 
his Paper entitled “ On the Solution of Linear Differential Equations,” published in 
the Philosophical Transactions for 1848. 
The Rumford Medal to M. V. Regnault, for his “ Experiments to determine the 
Laws and the numerical data which enter into the calculation of Steam-Engines.” 
The Bakerian Lecture for 1848 was delivered by The Rev. William Whewell, 
D.D., F.R.S., and entitled “ On the Tides of the Pacific, and on the Diurnal In- 
equality.” 
