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THE KING has been pleased to approve of the following awards this year by the president and council of the Royal Society:—Royal medal to Prof. J. B. Farmer for his notable work on plant and animal cytology, and Royal medal to Mr. J. H. Jeans for his researches in applied mathematics. The following awards have. also been made by the president and council:—Copley medal to Prof. W. M. Bayliss for his contributions to general physiology and to biophysics; Davy medal to Prof. P. F. Frankland for his distinguished work in chemistry, especially that on optical activity and on fermentation; Sylvester medal to Major P. A. MacMahon for his researches in pure mathematics, especially in connection with the partition of numbers and analysis; and Hughes medal to Dr. C. Chree for his researches on terrestrial magnetism. The following is a list of those recomnpended by the president and council of the Roval Society for election to the council at the anniversary meeting on December 1:—President: Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M. Treasurer: Sir David Prain, C.M.G. Secretaries: Mr. W. B. Hardy and Mr. J. H. Jeans. Foreign Secretary: Prof. W. A. Herdman. Other Members of the Council: Mr. J. Barcroft, Mr. C. V. Boys, Sir J. J. Dobbie, Sir F. Dyson, Prof. J. B. Farmer, Sir W. M. Fletcher, K.B.E., Prof. F. W. Gamble, Sir R. T. Glazebrook, Prof. J. W. Gregory, Dr. A. C. Haddon, Sir R. A. Hadfield, Bart., Sir A"B. Kempo, Sir W. J. Pcpe, K.B.E., Dr. S. H. C. Martin, Prof. A. Schuster, and Prof. W. P. Wynne