s.

1884. Royal Medal. {192b}

1892. Royal Astronomical Society's Medal.

1911. Copley Medal of the Royal Society.

1912. Royal Geographical Society's Medal.

_Offices_.

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Plumian Professor in the
University.

Vice-President of the International Geodetic Association, Lowell Lecturer
at Boston U.S. (1897).

Member of the Meteorological and Solar Physics Committees.

Past President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, {193} Royal
Astronomical Society, British Association.

_Doctorates_, _etc._, _of Universities_.

Oxford, Dublin, Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Padua (Socio onorario), Gottingen,
Christiania, Cape of Good Hope, Moscow (honorary member).

_Foreign or Honorary Membership of Academies_, _etc._

Amsterdam (Netherlands Academy), Boston (American Academy), Brussels
(Royal Society), Calcutta (Math. Soc.), Dublin (Royal Irish Academy),
Edinburgh (Royal Society), Halle (K. Leop.-Carol. Acad.), Kharkov (Math.
Soc.), Mexico (Soc. "Antonio Alzate"), Moscow (Imperial Society of the
Friends of Science), New York, Padua, Philadelphia (Philosophical
Society), Rome (Lincei), Stockholm (Swedish Academy), Toronto (Physical
Society), Washington (National Academy), Wellington (New Zealand Inst.).

_Correspondent of Academies_, _etc._, _at_

Acireale (Zelanti), Berlin (Prussian Academy), Buda Pest (Hungarian
Academy), Frankfort (Senckenberg. Natur. Gesell.), Gottingen (Royal
Society), Paris, St. Petersburg, Turin, Istuto Veneto, Vienna. {194}

XI
WAR MUSIC

AN ADDRESS TO A SOCIETY OF MORRIS DANCERS
DECEMBER 21, 1914

According to the _Dictionary of Music_ {195} the military march is meant
"not only to stimulate courage but also to ensure the orderly advance of
troops." In other words, military music serves to incite and to regulate
movement. But these cannot always be discriminated. The tramp tramp of
marching soldiers is ordered by the rhythm of the band. This is obvious,
but we cannot say how far the bravery of the tune puts strength into
tired legs, and this would be incitement,--and how far it is the
unappeasable rhythm that forces the men to keep going, and this may
perhaps be called regulation. There are occasions when the trumpet comes
as a signal to troops waiting to make some sublime effort, and where the
fierce imperious sound has a lift and a sting which perhaps no
pre-concerted signal of a weaker t