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It appeared in 1891 and is still a valuable epitome of the classifica- 

 tion of the vertebrates, recent as well as fossil, giving in dichoto- 

 mous tables the essential characters of all the groups above families 

 and also the names of all the families." 



The honors that came to him were many and well earned. 

 Haverford College gave him the degree of Master of Arts in 1870, 

 and the University of Heidelberg on the occasion of the celebra- 

 tion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation conferred 

 on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The Bigsby gold 

 medal of the Geological Society of London was bestowed on him 

 in 1879, and in 1891 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia gave him its Hayden Memorial medal. He became a member 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1861, and 

 was a curator of that Academy in 1865-73, corresponding secretary 

 in 1868-76, and a member of the Council in 1879-80. In 1866 

 he was chosen to membership in the American Philosophical 

 Society, and in 1872 was elected to the National Academy of 

 Sciences. His connection with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science began with his election in 1868, and in 

 1875 he was advanced to the grade of fellow. The Section on 

 Biology made him its presiding officer in 1884, and in the following 

 year he delivered a retiring address on " Catagenesis." His name 

 had been frequently urged upon the Association for its highest 

 honor, but it was not until the Springfield meeting in 1895 that 

 this well-merited appreciation came to him. In 1864 he 

 was elected a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of 

 London, and in 1881 he was chosen a foreign correspondent of 

 the Geological Society of London. While attending the Inter- 

 national Geological Congress held in 1878 in Paris, he was nomi- 

 nated for membership in the Geological Society of France, to which 

 he refers in a letter to his wife as "quite an honor." The Royal 

 academies of Bavaria and Denmark, as well as other learned 

 societies in Europe, testified to their appreciation of his attain- 

 ments by enrolling his name among their foreign correspondents. 



A personal description of the man taken from a sketch by Miss 

 Helen Dean King follows. Doctor King was his assistant for a 



