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of Tokio, in Japan, officially presented him with two bronze 

 vases of exquisite workmanship and design; also in 1895 he re- 

 ceived the Astronomical Journal prize of $400 for the "most 

 thorough discussion of the theory of the rotation of the earth, with 

 reference to the recently discovered variation of latitude." And 

 finally that the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg 

 in 1897, gave him the Schubert prize of 900 roubles. 



Universities gave him their highest degrees and he held the fol- 

 lowing honorary doctorates: George Washington, LL.D., 1874; 

 Yale, LL.D., 1875; Leyden, Nat.Ph.D., 1875; Harvard, LL.D., 

 1884; Heidelberg, Ph.D., 1886; Columbia, LL.D., 1887; Edin- 

 burgh, LL.D., 1891; Padua, Phil.Nat.D., 1892; Dublin, Sc.D., 

 1892; Princeton, LL.D., 1896; Cambridge, Sc.D., 1896; Glasgow, 

 LL.D., 1896; Oxford, D.C.L., 1899; Cracow, LL.D., 1900; 

 Johns Hopkins, LL.D., 1902; Christiania, Math.D., 1902; and 

 Toronto, LL.D., 1904. It may be added to this generous list of 

 universities with which he was affiliated that he was always active 

 in all matters that pertained to the progress of his own Harvard, 

 the alumni of which testified to their appreciation of his interest 

 by choosing him as one of their representatives on the Board of 

 Overseers of that university, a place that he held at the time of 

 his death. 



In 1872 he was elected an associate member of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society of London, and in 1877 he was made a foreign 

 member of the Royal Society of London; holding also honorary 

 fellowship in the similar societies in Edinburgh, 1881, Dub- 

 lin, 1882, and Sydney, Australia, 1901. He held correspond- 

 ing, associate or honorary membership in all of the great acade- 

 mies of science, including those in Sweden, 1875; Bavaria, 

 1876; Gottingen, 1888; Brussels, 1891; Rome, 1895; St. Peters- 

 burg, 1897; Amsterdam, 1898; Milan, 1899; Vienna and Berlin, 

 1904. 



Conspicuous among the honors which tell of the appreciation 

 of a man by his colleagues was the recognition received in 1887 

 by Newcomb in his election as one of the eight members of the 

 council of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, an international astro- 



