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PROF. G. H. DARWIN, of Cambridge, and Prof. Daniel Oliver, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, have been nominated by the Council of the Royal Society for the award of the two Royal Medals conferred by the Crown. The Copley Medal is to be given to Prof. Carl Ludwig, of Leipzig, in recognition of the great services which he has rendered to physiological science. Prof. Tobias Robertus Thalén, of Upsala, is to have the Rumford Medal for his spectroscopic researches; and the Davy Medal is awarded to Prof. A. W. H. Kolbe, also of Leipzig, for his, researches in the isomerism of alcohols. The two Leipzig Professors are Foreign Members of the Society. Prof. Darwin and Prof. Oliver are Fellows, the former well known for his mathematical investigations on the rigidity of the earth and on tidesy the latter for his investigation of the classification of plants and for the important services which he has rendered to taxonomic botany.