ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.] BIOGRAPHY. HI 



It is also interesting to note that for many years he was a director in the Jackson Iron Co. of 

 the Lake Superior district. He was, further, a director in the New York, New Haven & Hart- 

 ford Railroad from 1893 until his death, attending all the meetings with great regularity. 



Prof. Brush was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 18G8 and received 

 the degree of doctor of laws from Harvard University in 18S6. He presided as president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science at Cincinnati in 1881, and delivered 

 the presidential address at Montreal the following year. He was an honorary member of the 

 Mineralogical Society of England, a foreign member of the Geological Society of London, of 

 the Geological Society of Edinburgh, of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences of Munich, 

 and various other learned societies, both at home and abroad. 



The portrait accompanying this sketch has been reproduced from a photograph taken 

 about 1897. 



