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WE take the following from the Times:—The Royal Society medals for the present year have been awarded by the President and the Council as follows:—The Copley Medal to Prof. James Dwight Dana, for his biological, geological, and mineralogical investigations, carried on through half a century, and for the valuable works in which his conclusions and discoveries have been published. A Royal Medal to Mr. Frederick Augustus Abel, F.R.S., for his physico-chemical researches on gun-cotton and explosive agents. A Royal Medal to Prof. Oswald Heer, of Zurich, for his numerous researches and writings on the tertiary plants of Europe, of the North Atlantic, North Asia, and North America, and for his able generalisations respecting their affinities and their geological and climatic relations; and the Davy Medal to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, for their researches and discoveries in spectrum analysis. This is the first award of the Davy medal, which, as will be remembered, was founded by the proceeds of the sale of the service of silver plate bequeathed for the purpose by Sir Humphry Davy. The medals will be presented at the Society's anniversary meeting on the 30th inst.