Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1892, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Rudolf Virchow, For.Mem.R.S., for his Investigations in 
Pathology, Pathological Anatomy, and Prehistoric Archaeology. 
The Rumford Medal to Nils C. Duner, for his Spectroscopic Researches on 
Stars. 
A Royal Medal to John Newport Langley, F.R.S., for his Work on Secreting 
Glands, and on the Nervous System. 
A Royal Medal to the Rev. Charles Pritchard, D.D., F.R.S., for his Work on 
Photometry and Stellar Parallax. 
The Davy Medal to Francois Marie Raoult, for his Researches on the Freezing- 
Points of Solutions, and on the Vapour Pressures of Solutions, 
The Darwin Medal to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S., on account of his 
important Contributions to the progress of Systematic Botany, as evidenced by the 
“ Genera Plantarum ” and the “ Flora Indica ; ” but more especially on account of his 
intimate association with Mr. Darwin in the studies preliminary to the “ Origin of 
Species.” 
The Bakerian Lecture, “ On the Grand Currents of Atmospheric Circulation,” was 
delivered for Professor James Thomson, F.R.S., by the President. 
The Croonian Lecture, “ Les Phenomenes psychiques et la Temperature du 
Cerveau,” was delivered by Professor Angelo Mosso. 
