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Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1898, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Sir William Huggins, F.R.S., for his Researches in 
Spectrum Analysis applied to the Heavenly Bodies. 
The Rumford Medal to Oliver Joseph Lodge, F.R.S., for his Researches in 
Radiation and in the relations between Matter and Ether. 
A Royal Medal to Walter Gardiner, F.R.S., for his Researches on the 
Protoplasmic Connection of the Cells of Vegetable Tissues and on the Minute 
Histology of Plants. 
A Royal Medal to the Rev. John Kerr, LL.D., F.R.S., for his Researches on 
the Optical Effect of Electrical Stress and on the Reflection of Light at the Surface 
of a Magnetized Body. 
The Davy Medal to Johannes Wislicenus, For.Mem.R.S., for his Contributions 
to Organic Chemistry, especially in the Domain of Stereochemical Isomerism. 
The Darwin Medal to Karl Pearson, F.R.S., for his work on the Quantitative 
Treatment of Biological Problems. 
The Bakerian Lecture for 1899, “The Crystalline Stmcture of Metals,” was 
delivered by Professor J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., and Mr. W. Rosenhain on May 18, 
1899. 
The Croonian Lecture for 1899, “ On the Relation of Motion on Animals and 
Plants to the Electrical Phenomena which are associated with it,” was delivered by 
Professor Burdon Sanderson, F.R.S., on March 16, 1899. 
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