Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1880, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Prof. James Joseph Sylvester, F.R.S., for his long- 
continued investigations and discoveries in Mathematics. 
A Royal Medal to Prof. Joseph Lister, F.Pl.S., for his contributions on various 
Physiological and Biological Subjects published in the Philosophical Transactions and 
Proceedings of the Royal Society, and elsewhere ; and for his labours, practical and 
theoretical, on questions relating to the Antiseptic System of Treatment in Surgery. 
A Royal Medal to Capt. Andrew Noble. F.R.S., for his researches (jointly with 
Mr. Abel) into the Action of Explosives, his invention of the Chronoscope, and other 
Mathematical and Physical Inquiries. 
The Rumford Medal to JJr. William Huggins, F.R.S., for his important 
researches in Astronomical Spectroscopy, and especially for his determination of the 
Radial Component of the Proper Motions of Stars. 
The Davy Medal to Prof. Charles Friedel, of Paris, for his researches on the 
Organic Compounds of Silicon, and other investigations. 
The Paper “ On the Photographic Method of Mapping the least Refrangible End 
of the Solar Spectrum,” by Capt. Abney, F.R.S., was appointed as the Bakerian 
Lecture. 
The Paper “ On some Elementary Principles in Animal Mechanics, No. IX. : The 
Relation between the Maximum Work done, the Time of Lifting, and the Weights 
Lifted by the Arms,” by the Rev. Prof. ITaughton, F.R.S., was appointed as the 
Croonian Lecture. 
