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Nov. 30, 1841. At this, the anniversary meeting, Sir John William Lubbock, Bart, V. P. ami Treasurer, in the chair, after the reading of the address of the president, and the various eloges of the deceased fellows, the adjudication of the annual medals of the Royal Society by the president and fellows, was announced:?The Copley medal, to Dr G. S. Ohm, of Nuremberg, for his researches into the laws of electric currents, contained in various memoirs published in Schweigger's Journal, Poggendorff's Annalen, and in a separate work, entitled, "Die galvanische kette mathematish bearbertat " the royal medal, in the department of chemistry, to Dr Kane, M.R.S.A. of Dublin, for his memoir, entitled the " Chemical History of Auchil and Litmus," published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1840. The other royal medal, not having been awarded in the department of mathematics, was awarded in that of physics, to Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., F.RS. of Manchester, for his paper entitled, " Experimental Researches on the strength of pillars of cast iron, and other materials," published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1840.