CHAPTER XVI. 



HONOURS OF A LIFETIME. 



Membership in Societies — The Institute of France — Prizes — Medals 

 — Degrees — Portraits — Gifts, etc. 



T may be said that Darwin 

 was a member of nearly 

 every scientific society of 

 any prominence. In 1831 

 he was elected a member 

 of the London Zoological 

 Society, first being a cor- 

 responding member, later 

 becoming a fellow for dis- 

 tinguished services in the 

 cause of science. In 1833 

 he was elected to the 

 Entomological Society, being an original member, 

 and in 1836 he became a member and secretary of 

 the Geological Society. In 1838 he joined the Royal 

 Geographical Society, the following year the Royal 

 Society, the Linnaean in 1851, and the Ethnological 

 in 1 86 1. Every year new honours poured in upon 

 him in elections to societies or in the form of medals 



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