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an occasional visit to the Continent, either for duty or for relaxation. 

 He delighted especially in the scenery of the dolomite mountains of 

 the Italian Tyrol, spending among them many hours of quiet enjoy- 

 ment, while their magnificent outlines were recorded with rare fidelity 

 by the accomplished companion of his life. 



Happy, then, in his domestic life, happy in the affectionate appre- 

 ciation of numerous friends of varied ages and ranks, he was also 

 happy in seeing his work (though for honours and rewards he cared 

 less than most men) not unacknowledged by his contemporaries. In 

 addition to the honours mentioned above, he received in 1865 the 

 degree of LL.D. from the University of Dublin, and in 1876 that of 

 D.C.L. from Oxford. In 1870 he was awarded a Royal Medal by this 

 Society. He was a Knight of the Order of St. Maurice and St. 

 Lazare of Italy and of the Order of Leopold of Belgium. He was 

 also an honorary member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the 

 Mineralogical Society of France, and of Boston, U.S.A., a foreign 

 member of the Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg, of the Imperial 

 Royal Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and of the Royal Society, Got- 

 tingen ; and a corresponding member of the Academies of Berlin, 

 Munich, Paris, St. Petersburg, and of Turin. 



