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is contained in the collection of Memoirs published on the occasion of 

 Poggendorff's Jubilee in 1874. 



It is much to be regretted that Angstrom, in consequence of his great 

 clearness of mind and facility in business matters, was, during his last 

 years, so much occupied ^ith the administration of the Uniyersity and 

 with other duties totally unconnected with his scientific work. He was 

 Bector of the Uniyersity of Upsala in 1870 and 1871, President of the 

 Council of Economic Administration of the Uniyersity from the 3"ear 

 1869 until his death, Secretary of the Society of Science of Upsala from 

 1867 also until his death, and a Member of the Administratiye Council of 

 the city of Upsala from 1868 to 1873. 



Angstrom did not for many years receiye much recognition of his 

 scientific work; but with time distinctions accumulated. In 1850 he was 

 elected a Member of the Eoyal Academy of Science of Stockholm, in 

 1851 of the Eoyal Society of Science of Upsala, of the Eoyal Physiogra- 

 phical Society of Lund in 1866, of the Societe des Sciences Naturelles 

 de Cherbourg in 1867, of the Eoyal Academy of Science of Berlin also 

 in 1867, Poreign Member of the Eo3^al Society in 1870, of the Eoyal 

 Society of Science in Copenhagen in 1873, and Corresponding Member 

 of the Prench Institute in 1873. 



Before becoming a Member of the Upsala Society of Science he receiyed 

 from that learned body pecuniary remuneration for researches communi- 

 cated to them. Seyeral prizes were awarded to him by the Academy of 

 Science of Stockholm, and in 1870 the Eoyal Society conferred on him 

 the Eumford Medal. 



Angstrom regularly attended all the meetings of the Scandinayian 

 naturalists. Heyisited England and Prance in 1843-44, in 1859, 1866, 

 and 1867. He was a Knight of the Order of the Polar Star, made Com- 

 mander of the Tasa of the first class in 1873, and Commander of the 

 Italian Order of the Crown. He had a yigorous constitution, and it 

 was only during the last few years of his life that he often complained 

 of yioleut headache. On the 21st of June, 1874, he died of pachymen- 

 ingitis, after an illness of three weeks, leaying a widow, one son, and one 

 daughter. 



Jeain- Louis Eodolph Agassiz was born on the 28th of May, 1807, at 

 the yiUage of Metier in the Canton of Preyburg in Switzerland. His father 

 was pastor of Motier, and his ancestors had followed the same profession 

 for six generations. At 10 years of age Jean Louis Eodolph was sent to 

 the Academy of Biel, where he gaye eyidence of unusual ability. He early 

 showed a strong taste for Natural History, and whilst at Biel began to 

 collect insects; and later on he pursued a systematic study of the plants 

 in the neighbourhood of Orbe near the Jura, to Ayhich place his father had 

 moved. 



