The Anniversary of the Royal Society

Abstract

YESTERDAY being St. Andrew's Day the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held in their apartments at Burlington House. The auditors of the Treasurer's accounts having read their report, and the Secretary having read the list of Fellows elected and deceased since the last anniversary, the President (Lord Kelvin) proceeded to deliver the anniversary address. The medals were then presented as follows:—The Copley Medal to Prof. Rudolf Virchow, For.Mem.R.S. (received by the Foreign Secretary), for his investigations in Pathology, Pathological Anatomy, and Prehistoric Archæology; the Rumford Medal to Mr. Nils C. Dunér (received by the Swedish Minister), for his Spectroscopic Researches on Stars; a Royal Medal to Mr. J. N. Langley, F.R.S., for his work on Secreting Glands, and on the Nervous System; a Royal Medal to the Reverend Prof. Pritchard, F.R.S., for his work on Photometry and Stellar Parallax; the Davy Medal to Prof. François Marie Raoult, of Grenoble, for his researches on the Freezing Points of Solutions, and on the Vapour Pressures of Solutions; and the Darwin Medal to Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., on account of his important contributions to the progress of Systematic Botony, as evidenced by the “Genera Plantarum” and the “Flora Indica,” but more especially on account of his intimate association with Mr. Darwin in the studies preliminary to the “Origin of Species.”