Among the medals awarded to Alexander Graham Bell are the following: Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, gold medal for speak ing-telephone, gold medal for visible speech (1876) ; Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, the James Watt silver medal for the telephone (1877) ; Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, gold medal for the telephone, gold medal for visible speech (1878) ; Society of Arts, London, Royal Albert silver medal for his paper on the telephone (1878); Republique Francaise Exposition Universelle Internation ale, Paris, gold medal for the telephone and a silver medal (1878) ; Society of Arts, London, Royal Albert silver medal for his paper on the photophone (1881) ; the Karl Koenig von kVuertemberg gold medal; Society of Arts, London, Royal Albert gold medal for his in vention of the telephone (1902) ; John Fritz gold medal (1907) ; Franklin Institute of Phil adelphia, Elliott Cresson gold medal for the electrical transmission of speech (1912); David Edward Hughes gold medal and a silver medal (1913); American Institute of Electrical En gineers, Thomas Alva Edison gold medal (1914). Among the lonorary degrees con ferred upon Alexander Graham Bell are the following: Doctor of Laws, Illinois College (1881), Harvard College (1896), Amherst Col lege (1901), Saint Andrew's University (1902), Edinburgh University (1906), Queen's Univer sity, Canada (1908), George Washington Uni versity (1913), Dartmouth College (1914); Doctor of Philosophy, National Deaf-Mute College (now Gallaudet College) (1880), Wilrz burg University (1882) ; Doctor of Science, Oxford University (1906) ; Doctor of Medi cine, Heidelberg, Germany (1886). To him was awarded by the government of France the Volta prize of 50,000 francs for the electrical transmission of speech (1880); he was also decorated and created an officer of the Legion of Honor of France (1881).
Among the societies of which Alexander Graham Bell is a member are the following: Boston Society of Natural History; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston; Royal Society of Arts, London (honorary); Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, Lon don; Institute of Electrical Engineers, London; American Association for the Advancement of Science (life) ; Philosophical Society of Wash ington; American Philosophical Society, Phila delphia; National Academy of Sciences; Na tional Educational Association (lifc) ; Societe de Physique (corresponding), Paris; American Otological Society (honorary); American In stitute of Electrical Engineers (ex-president) ; American Association to Promote the Teach ing of Speech to the Deaf (founder, endower and ex-president); Antiquarian Society of Massachusetts; Anthropological Society of Washington; Washington Academy of Sci ences; National Geographic Society (ex-pres ident); Association for the Improved Instruc tion of Deaf-Mutes (honorary); Telephone Pioneers of America; American Anthropologi cal Society; American Senctic Association; American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society (honorary). In 1887 he
founded and endowed the "Volta Bureau for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Re lating to the Deaf," Washington, D. C. In 1900 he assisted in the formation of the Ameri can Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf and endowed the associa tion. As special agent of the Bureau of the Census he determined the scope of that part of the 12th census relating to the deaf of the United States living on 1 June 1900, initiated the inquiry, specified the tabulations to be made from the data secured, conducted the correspondence and prepared the text of the special report of 200 pages that is valued highly by all who are investigating any phase of deaf ness. He was appointed by Congress a •regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1898 and has been regularly reappointed since. In January 1904 he brought the remains of James Smith son, founder of the Smithsonian Institution, from Genoa, Italy, to New York, where they were received with national honors and con veyed to Washington.