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PIONEERS OF SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 



which have been described in this sketch, concerning which 

 they stand as original authorities. Orders were conferred upon 

 him by the sovereigns of Russia, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, 

 and France ; gold medals by those of Prussia, Austria, Sweden, 

 Holland, Sardinia, France, and the free city of Bremen ; and 

 other honours by the Pope and Maximilian. He was a member 

 of ten foreign and four American scientific and historical socie- 

 ties that are named, and of many other learned bodies of which 

 the records were lost during the war. 



