Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1885, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Professor August Kekitle, For. Mem. R.S., for his 
researches in Organic Chemistry. 
A Royal Medal to Professor David Edward Hughes, F.R.S., for his Electric 
and Magnetic Researches, and his invention of the Microphone and the Induction 
Balance. 
A Royal Medal to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, F.R.S., for his discoveries 
concerning the Embryology and Morphology of the Mollusca, and his services to 
Embryology and Animal Morphology in genera]. 
The Davy Medal to Professor Jean Servais Stas, For. Mem. R.S., for his 
researches on the Atomic Weights. 
The Bakerian Lecture, “ On the Corona of the Sun,” was delivered by Dr. Huggins, 
F.R.S. 
The Croonian Lecture was not delivered. 
