Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1876 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Claude Bernard, For.Mem.R.S., for his numerous 
contributions to the science of Physiology. 
A Royal Medal to Mr. William Froude, F.R.S., for his Researches, both theo- 
retical and experimental, on the Behaviour of Ships, their oscillations, their resistance, 
and their propulsion. 
A Royal Medal to Sir C. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S., for his successful direction 
of the scientific investigations carried on by H.M.S. ‘ Challenger.’ 
The Rumford Medal to M. Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, For. Mem. R.S., for his 
numerous and important Researches on the Radiation and Absorption of Light, carried 
on chiefly by means of the Spectroscope. 
The Bakerian Lecture was delivered by Professor T. Andrews, LL.D., F.R.S. : 
it was entitled “ On the Gaseous State of Matter.” 
The Croonian Lecture was delivered by Mr. G. J. Romanes: it was entitled 
“ Preliminary Observations on the Locomotor System of Medusae.” 
