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WE take the following from the Times:—The medals in the gift of the Royal Society for the present year have been awarded by the Council as follows:—The Copley medal to Prof. Karl Adolph Wurtz of Paris, For. Mem. R.S., for his discovery of the organic ammonias, the glycols, and numerous other investigations which have exercised considerable influence on the progress of chemistry; the Davey medal to Prof. Adolf Baeyer of Munich for his synthesis of indigo; a Royal medal to Mr. Francis Maitland Balfour, F.R.S., of Cambridge, for his numerous and important contributions to animal morphology, and more especially for his investigations respecting the origin of the uro-genital organs and the cerebrospinal nerves of the vertebrate, and for his work on the development of the elasmo-branch fishes; a Royal medal to the Rev. John Hewitt Jellett of Dublin for his various mathematical and physical papers, more especially for his researches in chemical optics and his invention of the new and delicate analyser by which they were carried out.
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Notes . Nature 25, 61–64 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025061a0
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