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AT a meeting on Monday, May 19, the council of the Royal Society of Arts passed the following resolution:—“On the occasion of the fiftieth award of the Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts, the council of the society desire to offer the medal to H.M. King George V., for nine years president, and now patron of the society, in respectful recognition of his Majesty's untiring efforts to make himself personally acquainted with the social and economic condition of the various parts of his dominions, and to promote the progress of arts, manufactures, and commerce in the United Kingdom and throughout the British Empire.” The Albert medal was established in 1862 as a memorial of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, who had been president of the society for eighteen years. It is awarded annually for “distinguished merit in promoting arts, manufactures, or commerce.” In 1887 it was awarded to Queen Victoria on the occasion of her jubilee, and in 1901 to King Edward VII., when, on his accession to the throne, he relinquished the presidency of the Society of Arts, which he had held for thirty-eight years.