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THE medals of the Royal Society have this year been awarded as follows:—The Copley Medal to Prof. Huxley, for his investigations on the morphology and histology of vertebrate and invertebrate animals; the Rumford Medal to Prof. P. Tacchini for his investigations on the physics of the sun; and the Davy Medal to Mr. W. Crookes, for bis investigations on the behaviour of substances under the influence of the electric discharge in a high vacuum. The Royal Medals have, with the approval of Her Majesty, been awarded to Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, for his investigations of the flora of Australia, and to Prof. Osborne Reynolds, for his investigations in mathematical and experimental physics. The medals will be presented at the-anniversary meeting on November 30.
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Notes . Nature 39, 58–61 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039058a0
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