 ... marvellous variety of attainments and extent of knowledge ; but during his life he hardly held that elevated place among great discoverers which posterity will probably assign him. In 1802, he was constituted foreign secretary of the Royal Society,...  The Observatory - Page 3181909Full view - About this book
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 pages
...constituted foreign secretary of the Royal Society, an office which he held during life ; in 1827 he was elected one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France; perhaps the greatest honour which men of science usually receive. The fortune of his life in some other... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 556 pages
...constituted foreign secretary of the Royal Society, an office which he held during life ; in 1827 he was elected one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France; perhaps the greatest honour which men of science usually receive. The fortune of his life in some other... | |
 | Geological Society of London - 1854 - 680 pages
...knighthoods and distinctions of all kinds had been showered upon him unsought, for his merits. He was one of the eight Foreign members of the Institute of France, and a foreign or honorary fellow of almost every great scientific academy out of his own country. At home... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 pages
...constituted Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, an office which he held during life ; in 1827 he was elected one of the eight Foreign Members of the Institute of France ; perhaps the greatest honor which men of science usually receive. The fortune of his life in some... | |
 | George Coutie - 1861 - 212 pages
...became first permanent Master of the Mint, 1850, an ofiice which he resigned owing to ill health, 1855 ; elected one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France, 1855. Author also of the articles " Physical Geography," " Meteorology," &c., in the " Encyclopaedia... | |
 | William Whewell - 1866 - 680 pages
...constituted Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, an office which he held during life ; in 1827 he was elected one of the eight Foreign Members of the Institute of France ; perhaps the greatest honor which men of science usually receive. The fortune of his life in some... | |
 | 1874 - 1060 pages
...this, the information comes to this country that M. DeCandolle has the distinguished honor of being elected one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France (Academy of Sciences), to fill the vacancy made by the death of Agassiz. (2.) WC WILLIAMSON : Primeval... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...Professor of Modern Languages, curator in the Bodleian Librar}', Fellow of All Souls. &c. He was made one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France, and lias received the honorary degree of LL.D. from both the universities of Cambridge nnd Edinburgh, Few... | |
 | 1887 - 692 pages
...Philology in Oxford (1868), with which University he has been associated ever since. Professor Mtlller is one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France, and is a Knight of the Ordre pour le Merite. Among other honours he is an honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh and... | |
 | 1891 - 1590 pages
...1889 under the title of Natural Religion ; and a second course was delivered by him in 1890. He is one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France, and one of the twenty knights of the Ordre pour le Merite. He has received the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge,... | |
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