Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1893, 
by the President and Council. 
The Copley Medal to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., F.R.S., for his 
Researches and Discoveries in Physical Science. 
A Royal Medal to Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., for his Spectroscopic Inquiries, 
and his Researches on Disruptive Discharge through Gases, and on Terrestrial 
Magnetism. 
A Royal Medal to Harry Marshall Ward, F.R.S., for his Researches into the 
Life History of Fungi find Schizomycetes. 
The Davy Medal to J. H. van’t Hofe and J. A. Le Bel, in recognition of their 
Introduction of the Theory of Asymmetric Carbon, and its Use in Explaining the 
Constitution of Optically Active Carbon Compounds. 
The Bakerian Lecture, “ The Rate of Explosion in Gases,” was delivered by 
Professor Harold B. Dixon, F.R.S. 
The Croonian Lecture, “ The Position of Patliology among Biological Studies,” 
was delivered by Professor Rudolf Virchow, For.Mem.R.S. 
MDCCCXCHI—A. 
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