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ends. After recovering he returned to England, then visited 

 Spain, and after marrying in England he came to the United 

 States in 1830. He immediately engaged in business and after 

 thirty years of successful ventures he retired on a handsome 

 fortune. The fifteen years following this he spent in traveling 

 over Europe and America, and in 1875 settled on " Brambletye 

 Farm" at Setauket, Long Island, where he led a quiet, retired life. 

 For more than thirty years Mr, Hodgkins made a special study 

 of the atmosphere in its relation to the well-being of humanity. 



He believed that this study 

 was important, not only with 

 reference to man's physical 

 health, but even in relation 

 to his moral and spiritual 

 nature, and he hoped that the 

 concentration of thought up- 

 on the atmosphere and its 

 study from every point of 

 view would in time lead to 

 results which would justify 

 his almost devout interest in 

 the subject. 



Mr. Hodgkins had no fam- 

 ily and no known blood rela- 

 tions, and, recognizing the 

 difficulties which often arise 

 over the settlement of large 

 estates, he chose to be his 

 own executor ; he therefore 

 gave away his entire wealth 

 to various public institu- 

 tions ; these gifts included large sums to the American Society for 

 the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and the similarly named 

 society for protecting animals; and one hundred thousand dol- 

 lars to the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



Since writing the foregoing pages, the Committee of Award 

 for the Hodgkins Prizes has completed its examination of the 

 papers submitted in competition. These papers were two hun- 

 dred and eighteen in number, and were sent from almost every 

 quarter of the globe. The committee consisted of Prof. S. P. 

 Langley, ex officio, Prof. G. Brown Goode, Dr. John S. Billings, 

 Prof. M. W. Harrington, together with a foreign Advisory Com- 

 mittee, composed of the late Prof. T. H. Huxley, M. J. Jansen, 

 and Prof. Wilhelm von Bezold. 



On August 6, 1895, the committee announced the following 

 awards : 



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