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THE President and Council of the Royal Society have this year awarded the Copley Medal to Franz Ernst Neumann, of Konigsberg (For. Mem. R.S.), for his researches in theoretical optics and electro-dynamics, and the Davy Medal to Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, of Geneva (For. Mem. R.S.), for his researches on atomic weights. Prof. S. P. Langley was awarded the Rumford Medal for his researches on the spectrum by means of the bolometer. The Royal Medals have, with the approval of Her Majesty, been awarded to Mr. F. Galton and Prof. Guthrie Tait, the former eminent for his statistical inquiries into biological phenomena, and the latter for his various mathematical and physical researches. The medals will be presented at the anniversary meeting on November 30.

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Notes . Nature 35, 83–85 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035083a0

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