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THE annual meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Society was held on Tuesday at Burlington House. The retiring President, Sir George Biddell Airy, K. C.B., delivered the inaugural address. The presentation of the medals followed. The Copley Medal was awarded to Professor Helmholtz, the distinguished physiologist, physicist, and mathematician, of Berlin, “whose memoirs have ranged through nervous physiology, hydro-dynamical theory, instruments (as the ophthalmometer and the ophthalmoscope) for exact measurement and for medical examination of the eye, and other important subjects, and have been generally recognised as giving real additions to our knowledge.” A Royal Medal was awarded to Prof. Allman, F.R.S., “for his numerous zoological investigations, and more especially for his work upon the Tubularian Hydroids. The subject of these labours is one upon which few persons are qualified to enter; and the Council are impressed with the delicacy of the work and the value of the scientific results.” A Royal medal was awardep to Professor H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., of Owens College, Manchester, “for his various Chemical Researches, more especially for his investigations of the Chemical Action of Light, and of the Combinations of Vanadium.” Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., was elected President of the Society.