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not because he had been commanded to, but because he clearly 

 saw that this was the right thing to do. He was as free from any- 

 thing that could fairly be called sin as anyone I have ever known. 



Rowland received many honors from learned societies and uni- 

 versities at home and abroad. He was Honorary Member of 

 the Royal Society of London, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, of the Physical Society of London; Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Royal Society of Gb'ttingen, of the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences in Paris; Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish 

 Academy of Stockholm; Associate Fellow of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences; Member of the National Academy of 

 Sciences; and a member of nine other learned societies. He was 

 awarded the Rumford Medal of the American Academy in 1884, 

 the Matteucci Medal in 1897. He received the Honorary Degree 

 of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1880 the only time this degree 

 has been conferred honoris causa by Johns Hopkins and the 

 degree of LL.D. from Yale, in 1895, and from Princeton in 1896. 

 He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1896. 



