Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1890, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Simon Newcomb, For.Mem.R.S., for his Contributions to 
the Progress of Gravitational Astronomy. 
The Rumford Medal to Heinrich Hertz, for his work in Electro-magnetic 
Radiation. 
A Royal Medal to David Perrier, F.R.S., for his Researches on the Localisation 
of Cerebral Functions. 
A Royal Medal to John Hopkinson, F.R.S., for his Researches in Magnetism 
and Electricity. 
The Davy Medal to Emil Fischer, for his Discoveries in Organic Chemistry, and 
especially for his Researches on the Carbo-hydrates. 
The Darwin Medal to Alfred Russel Wallace, for his Independent Origination 
of the Theory of the Origin of Species by Natural Selection. 
The Bakerian Lecture, “ The Discharge of Electricity tlirough Gases (Preliminary 
Communication),” was delivered by Professor A. Schuster, F.R.S. 
The Croonian Lecture, “ On some Relations between Host and Parasite in certain 
Epidemic Diseases of Plants,” was delivered by Professor H. M. Ward, F.Pt.S. 
