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THE following list of those to whom the Royal Society lias this year awarded medals was received a few hours too late for insertion in last week's NATURE. The awards of the Royal medals have received the King's gracious approval:—The Copley medal to Prof. A. A. Michelson, of Chicago, For.Mem.R.S., for his investigations in optics; a Royal medal to Dr. E. W. Hobson, F.R.S., for his investigations in mathematics; a Royal medal to Dr. R. H. Traquair, F.R.S., for his discoveries relating to fossil fishes; the Davy medal to Prof. E. W. Morley, of Cleveland, Ohio, for his contributions to physics and chemistry, and especially for his determinations of the relative atomic weights of hydrogen and oxygen; the Buchanan medal to Mr. W. H. Power, C.B., F.R.S., for his services to sanitary science; the Hughes medal to Prof. Ernest H. Griffiths, F.R.S., for his contributions to exact physical measurement; the Sylvester medal to Prof. W. Wirtinger, of Vienna, for his contributions to the general theory of functions.