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Institution, was secured, and, largely through his personal 

 efforts, two new branches, the Astrophysical Observatory and 

 the National Zoological Park, were added to it. 



The tributes in recognition of his work are almost too numer- 

 ous to recite. He received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford, 

 D.Sc. from Cambridge, and, among numerous others, the de- 

 gree of LL.D. from the universities of Harvard, Princeton, 

 Michigan, and Wisconsin. He was awarded the Henry Draper 

 medal by the National Academy of Sciences, the Rumford 

 medal by the Royal Society of London, and the Rumford 

 medal by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as 

 well as the Janssen medal from the Institute of France, and the 

 medal of the Astronomical Society of France. He was a for- 

 eign member of the Royal Society of London, a correspondent 

 of the Institute of France, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society of London, member of the Royal Institution of London, 

 member of the Academia dei Lincei, of Rome, of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, and of many others. 



He was also President of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Vice-President of the American 

 Philosophical Society, member of the Council of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, and a Trustee of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion. He was a man of a singularly retiring disposition and of 

 a depth of affection which only those who knew him most inti- 

 mately ever fathomed. 



Cyrus Abler. 



