...cowardice, and servility he maintained a firm and dignified resistance to the insolent tyranny of Napoleon. It is little to say of such a man that he was utterly inaccessible to the vulgar seductions of pecuniary interest. The very intensity of his self-esteem...

...which he had himself projected, and which had been begun by Dagelet before his unfortunate expedition. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1763. His health was generally good, though his constitution was delicate. He had an attack of jaundice...

...Faraday relied less on his imagination and more on his experiments. Brilliant as were his triumphs, ihey were won by hard work. His whole scientific life was...Academy of Sciences in 1823, a Foreign Associate of the American Academy in 1844 ; that his name was eagerly sought to ndorn the list of honor of all other...

...the humble sect of Christians to which he belonged as much as lecturing before princes and nubles, either of birth or of intellect, at the Royal Institution....Academy of Sciences in 1823, a Foreign Associate of the American Academy in 1844 ; that his name was eagerly sought to adorn the list of honor of all other...

...French order of the Legion of Honour, and a member of many learned societies in America and Europe. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1859, and of 568 509 the National Academy of the United States in 1873. HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN, painter,...

...Washington the past year. At the Bologna meeting in 1881, he was one of the twenty Vice-Presidents. He was made a fellow of the Royal .Society of London in 1859, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1873 ; and in 1881 he received from Cambridge,...

...learned societies at home and abroad, as well as of friendly recognition from his own sovereign. In 1767 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London ; in 1776 Surgeon Extraordinary to George III; in 1783 a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and of...

...the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Harvard. He possessed wealth and was a patron of learning. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In his will he left to the Church his great silver basin to be used as a baptismal font. Mr. Appleton...

...he soon became interested in electrical engineering, and was led to many important investigations. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1878, and in 1890 was awarded by it a royal medal for researches in electricity and magnetism. He was...

...Harvard the honorary degree of LL. D., and of Sc. D. from the Universities of Montreal and Quebec. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1859, and of the National Academy of the United States in 1873, receiving also an appointment as officer...