The President and Council of the Royal Society ad- 
judged the Medal on Sir Godfrey Copley’s Donation, for the 
year 1817, to Captain Henry Kater, F. R. S. for his Experi- 
ments on the Pendulum. 
And they adjudged the Gold and Silver Medals, on the Do- 
nation of Benjamin Count of Rumford, to Sir Humphry 
Davy, LL.D. F. R. S. for his Papers on Combustion and Flame, 
published in the last Volume of the Philosophical Transactions. 
