Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1872 by 
the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Friedrich Wohler, of Gottingen, For. Memb. R.S., 
for his numerous contributions to the science of Chemistry, and more especially for his 
researches on the products of the decomposition of Cyanogen by Ammonia; on the 
Derivatives of Uric Acid; on the Benzoyl Series; on Boron, Silicon, and their com- 
pounds ; on Titanium, and on Meteoric Stones. 
A Royal Medal to Professor Thomas Anderson, M.D., for his investigations on 
the Organic Bases of Dippell’s Animal Oil ; on Codeine ; on the Crystallized Constituents 
of Opium ; on Piperin and on Papaverin ; and for his researches in Physiological and 
Agricultural Chemistry. 
A Royal Medal to Mr. Henry John Carter, F.R.S., for his long-continued and 
valuable researches in Zoology, and more especially for his inquiries into the Natural 
History of the Spongiadse. 
The Rumford Medal to Anders Jonas Angstrom, For. Memb. R.S., for his Researches 
on Spectral Analysis. 
The Bakerian Lecture was delivered by William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S. : it was 
entitled “ On the Structure and Development of the Skull of the Salmon ( Salmo salar ).” 
The Croonian Lecture was not delivered. 
