Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1 884, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor Carl Litdwig, For. Mem. RS., for his investiga¬ 
tions in Physiology, and the great services which he has rendered to Physiological 
Science. 
A Royal Medal to Professor George Howard Darwin, F.R.S., for his Mathe¬ 
matical Investigations on the Rigidity of the Earth, and on Tides. 
A Royal Medal to Professor Daniel Oliver, F.R.S., for his Investigations in the 
Classification of Plants, and for the great services which he has rendered to Taxonomic 
Botany. 
The Rumford Medal to Professor Tobias Robertus Thalen for his Spectroscopic 
Researches. 
The Davy Medal to Professor Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, For. Mem. 
R.S., for his Researches in the Isomerism of Alcohols. 
The Bakerian Lecture, “ Experiments on the Discharge of Electricity through 
Gases,” was delivered by Dr. Schuster, F.R.S. 
The Croonian Lecture was not delivered. 
