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His MAJESTY THE KING has been pleased to approve of the following awards this year by the president and council of the Royal Society:—A Royal medal to Prof. Sir Joseph Larmor, F.R.S., for his numerous and important contributions to mathematical and physical science; a Royal medal to Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S., for his important contributions to ethnography and ethnology. The following awards have also been made. by the president and council:—The Copley medal to Prof. Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov, for his. investigations in the physiology of digestion and of the higher centres of the nervous system; the Davy medal to Prof. Paul Sabatier, for his researches on contact action and the application of finely-divided metals as catalytic agents; the Hughes medal to Prof. Paul Langevin, for his important contributions to, and preeminent position in, electrical science.

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Notes . Nature 96, 348–352 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096348a0

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