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The Royal Society made him one of their number in 1865, and 

 afterwards bestowed on him three of the medals which it is their 

 privilege to award — a Royal medal in 1866, the Rumford in 1880 

 and the Copley in 1898. He received the gold medal of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society in 1867 jointly with Professor 

 Miller. The Paris Academy of Sciences awarded him the 

 Lalande prize in 1872 and elected him to their ranks as a corres- 

 ponding member in 1874. Another honour came to him from 

 France in 1888, when he received the Prix Janssen of the 

 Institute. The University of Cambridge gave him the honorary 

 degree of LL.D, in 1870, and a few months later he received the 

 degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. He also held 

 honorary degrees from various other universities both at home 

 and abroad ; many foreign learned societies enrolled him as 

 an honorary member. 



He rendered valued service to many societies. From 1876 

 to 1878 he was President of the Royal Astronomical Society ; 

 he was for seven years one of the secretaries and for thirty 

 years the Foreign Secretary of that Society. In 1891 he served 

 as President of the British Association at its Cardiff meeting. 

 After being three times vice-president, he was chosen in 1900 to 

 succeed Lord Lister as President of the Royal Society and filled 

 the office for five years with marked dignity and distinction. 

 In his seventy-fourth year, on the occasion of the Diamond 

 Jubilee of Queen Victoria, he was made a Knight Commander of 

 the Bath, and four years later (1901) he was one of the group of 

 twelve who first received the Order of Merit established in that 

 year. 



Sir William Huggins married in 1875 Miss Margaret Lindsay 

 Murray, the daughter of Mr. John Murray of Dublin, a lady in 

 whom he found an able and enthusiastic collaborator and assist- 

 ant. Her name appears as joint author with his own on many 

 of the scientific papers published by him since that date. Sir 

 William died on May 12, 1910, in his eighty-seventh year. An 

 admirable portrait of him in his eighty-first year was painted by 

 the Hon. John Collier; it hangs in the rooms of the Royal Society. 

 Through the kindness of Lady Huggins a reproduction of it 

 is here given. It also appears in photogravure, together with 

 a portrait of Lady Huggins, in the opening pages of the volume 

 of his collected scientific papers. 



