1 66 ROYAL PENSION. 



He persuaded Mr. Binney to sit to Mr. W. H. Johnson 

 for the admirable portrait which Joule presented to the 

 Society. 



In June, 1878, he received a letter from the Prime 

 Minister, Lord Beaconsfield, announcing to him that her 

 Majesty the Queen had been pleased to grant him a 

 pension of ^200 per annum, which recognition of his 

 labours by his country was a source of much gratification 

 to him as well as being a great convenience. 



He was receiving Scientific Honours with increasing 

 frequency. He was elected in 1873 Corresponding Member 

 of the Academies of Copenhagen and of Bologna; American 

 Academy, Boston, 1874; B.H.D. University, Leyden 

 (300th Anniversary) 1875 ; Hon. Mem. Literary and 

 Antiquarian Society, Perth, 1876; "Societie Frangais de 

 Physique," Paris, 1878 ; Foreign Corresponding Member, 

 Royal Academy of Science, Turin, and Member (Hon.) of 

 the Academy of Sciences, New York, 1879. 



In 1880 he was elected a Member of the First Court 

 of the Victoria University, Manchester, the meetings of 

 which he regularly attended. He also received the Royal 

 Albert Medal from the hand of the Prince of Wales on 

 behalf of the Society of Arts. 



In 1 88 1 the Council of the Physical Society of London 

 requested Dr. Joule to allow them to publish a collected 

 edition of his works. To this honourable request Joule 

 readily agreed, and undertook the personal labour of 

 getting them together, and editing the collection. 



The first volume of Joule's "Scientific Papers," con- 

 taining all papers which appeared in his own name, was 

 published in 1884. Then, for the first time, the scientific 

 world had the opportunity of becoming acquainted, not 



