374 CHARLES JOHN BIAXIMOWICZ. 



Notwithstanding his duties as a teacher, he found time during 

 his life at Clinton for a great amount of astronomical observation. 

 His principal work was that of determining the places of faint 

 stars, with a view to the preparation of an extensive series of 

 charts, part of which he published at his own expense in 1882. 

 In the course of these observations he discovered many new vari- 

 able stars and forty-eight new asteroids. He also made a long 

 series of observations of solar spots. In 1874 he was chief of the 

 expedition sent by the United States government to observe the 

 transit of Venus. In 1876 he was chosen a member of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences. 



His studies of the ancient catalogues of stars, such as that of 

 Ptolemy, were extensive and profound, and part of his published 

 work relates to these and similar subjects. His frequent journeys 

 to Europe maintained his acquaintance with his professional col- 

 leagues of Germany and other countries, among whom he was 

 always cordially welcomed. While the combative temperament 

 which had formerly made him a soldier in the cause of Sicilian 

 independence occasionally led him into controversies with regard 

 to the extent of his personal rights, he made many friends, by 

 whom he was greatly beloved. 



FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS. 



CPIAELES JOHN MAXIMOWICZ. 



Russia has been fruitful during the last seventy years in bot- 

 anists of more than ordinary ability, as is shown by the mention 

 from among them of such names as Besser, Bongard, Bunge and 

 the Fischers, Herder, Ledelx>ur, Maximowicz, Meyer and Kegel, 

 Ruprecht, Trautvetter, and Trinius, all well known to the botani- 

 cal world. Of these this Academy has numbered among its For- 

 eign Honorary Membei-s only the subject of the present notice, 

 C J. Maximowicz, who was elected on October 10, 1888, and died 

 on the 16th of February last. 



Maximowicz was born on November 23, 1827, in the town of 

 Toula in Central Russia, though most of his boyhood was spent in 

 St. Petersburg. In 1844 he entered the University at Dorpat, 

 where Dr. Bunge was then Professor of Botany, and upon gradu- 



