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These discoveries were promptly recognized.

As early as 1807 the degree of LL. D.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

In 1821, he was made a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.