HONOURS TO CAROL1NK IIKkS( (ill 



mained, to the en-1 i lu-r long life, the same 1 

 worshipper of departed greatness that ahe had been 

 i other's lifetime, and the same outspoken 

 men and women whom ahe happened to meet 

 oen years after ahe left England, ahe wrote: 

 months I have been obliged to 

 exert myself once more to answer two letters, one to 

 1 >e Morgan, the Secretary of the Royal Astrono- 

 mer to Mr. Baily (who, I suppose, 

 they have been pleased to choose me, 

 along with Mrs. Somerville, to be a member (God 

 knows wl Promotion! she 



says, thry call it in Han..v-r. ami l.iu-hin-ly talk- of 



\\hi.-h I am now a fellow!" 



was then eighty-five years of age. Apparently she 

 was of the same mind as Hannah More, who, when 

 i IKT name proposed as an honorary member 

 10 Royal Society of Literature, wrote a strong 

 remonstrance' ing the distinction, chiefly "be- 



cause I consider th.- circumstance of sex alone a 



November 1838 she was also elected an honorary 



or of the Royal Irish Academy, DuMin: and 



besides she received in 1846, from the King of Prussia, 



M medal for science. Well earned though l> 

 these honours were, she wrote with the mode- 



science, when she heard I cannot 



ng out aloud to myself, every now and 

 What iHVn\T for?' 1 think almost it is m< 



me to look upon mo as a Member of an Ac 

 that have lived these eighteen years (against n. 

 ui-1 n) without finding as much aa a 



1 /../ ft. 307, December S3, 18*0. Shew then 



