CHAPTER XVI. 



HONOURS OF A LIFETIME. 



Membership in Societies The Institute of France Prizes 

 Degrees Portraits Gifts, etc. 



-Medals 



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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 1861. Every year new honours poured in upon 

 him in elections to societies or in the form of medals 

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