Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1874 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Louis Pasteur, For. Memb. R.S., for his Researches 
on Fermentation and on Pebrine. 
The Rumford Medal to Mr. Joseph Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., for his Spectroscopic 
Researches on the Sun and on the Chemical Elements. 
A Royal Medal to Mr. Henry Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., for his Researches on Slaty. 
Cleavage and on the minute Structure of Minerals and Rocks ; for the construction of 
the Micro-Spectroscope, and for his Researches on Colouring-matters. 
A Royal Medal to Professor William Crawford Williamson, F.R.S., for his Con- 
tributions to Zoology and Palaeontology, and especially for his Investigations into the 
Structure of the Fossil Plants of the Coal-measures. 
The Bakerian Lecture was delivered by Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. : it was 
entitled “ Researches in Spectrum- Analysis in connexion with the Spectrum of the 
Sun. — No. III.” 
The Croonian Lecture was delivered by Professor David Ferrier, M.D. : it wa: 
entitled “ The Localization of Function in the Brain.” 
