of the American Geographical Society (1901) Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan (1911) Honorary Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University (1912) Franklin Medal (1918) Mendenhall Laboratory on the campus of the Ohio State University is named for him Bibliography Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin and Drew, Sybil (2017) "An American Scientist In Japan 1878-1881 And Japan Revisited After Thirty Years" Jan & Brooklyn Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin and Drew, Sybil (2017) "The Alaska Boundary Line And Twenty Unsettled Miles: The History Of St. Croix River" Jan & Brooklyn Notes References Obituary Science, July 11, 1924 Further reading Rubinger, Richard (1989) American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall, Carey, C. W. (1999) "Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin", American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 15: 297-298, [Anon.] (2001) "Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin", Encyclopædia Britannica, Deluxe CDROM edition Hebra, A. & Hebra, A. J. (2003) Measure for Measure: The Story of Imperial, Metric, and Other Units Drew, Sybil (2016) Self Styled Genius: The Life of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Jan & Brooklyn External links Sybil Drew https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3091159/ American meteorologists American seismologists 1841 births 1924 deaths Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences United States Coast and Geodetic Survey personnel Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan Foreign educators in Japan American expatriates in Japan Ohio State University trustees Presidents of Worcester Polytechnic Institute Recipients of the Cullum Geographical Medal People from Hanoverton, Ohio 19th-century American physicists 20th-century American physicists Members of the American Antiquarian Society People from Stark County, Ohio Scientists from Ohio Presidents of the American Physical Society