academy of scimcu.] HONORS AWARDED. 15 



in the world. He was elected to membership in societies, not including many minor and local 

 societies, 8 as below: 



1859: Member American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was made a 

 Fellow in 1874, and was elected president of the American association in 1876. He delivered 

 the presidential address in 1878. 



1860: Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



1869: Member National Academy of Sciences. He was vice president of the academy in 

 1883-18S9, home secretary in 1881-1883, and foreign secretary from 1903 until bis death. 



1870: Associate Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



1871 : Member Philosophical Society of Washington. He was president of the society for 

 the years 1879, 1880, and 1909. 



1872 : Foreign Associate Royal Astronomical Society of London. 



1873 : Member Astronomische Gesellschaf t. He was elected a member of the council of the 

 Gesellschaft in 1887. 



1874: Corresponding member Paris Academy of Sciences. 



1875: Foreign Associate Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. 



1875: Corresponding member Imperial Academy of Sciences, Petrograd. 



1876: Corresponding member Royal Academy of Sciences, Munich. 



1877: Foreign Associate Royal Scientific Society of Upsala, Sweden. 



1877: Foreign member Royal Society of London. 



1878: Member American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 



1878: Foreign member Holland Society of Sciences, Haarlem. 



1878: Honorary member Cambridge Philosophical Society, England. 



1881 : Honorary Foreign Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



1881: Foreign member Royal Physiographical Society, Lund, Sweden. 



1882: Honorary member Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 



1883: Corresponding member Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin. 



1884 : Corresponding member British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was 

 one of the vice presidents of the association in 1904. 



1886 : Honorary member London Mathematical Association. 



1886: Associate Liverpool Astronomical Society. 



1887: Honorary member Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 



1888: Foreign correspondent Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen. 



1891 : Honorary member New York Academy of Sciences. 



1891 : Honorary member Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



1891: Honorary Fellow Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 



1891: Foreign Associate Royal Academy of Science, Brussels. 



1895: Foreign Associate Institute of France. 



1895: Foreign Associate Royal Academy of the Lincei, Rome. 



1896: Honorary member Imperial Academy of Sciences, Petrograd. 



1896 : Officer of the Legion of Honor, France. 



1897: Corresponding member Imperial Geographical Society, Petrograd. 



1897: Foreign Associate Italian Society of Science, Rome. 



1897: Honorary member Royal Society of Arts, London. 



1898: Foreign Associate Royal Institute of Science, Letters and Arts, Venice. 



1898 : Honorary member Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam. 



1899: Corresponding member Royal Institute of Science and Letters, Milan. 



1899: Foreign correspondent Bureau of Longitudes, Paris. 



1901: Honorary member Russian Astronomical Society. 



1901: Honorary member Royal Society of New South Wales, Sydney. 



3 For references to Newcomb's membership in many minor societies and academies I am indebted to Prof. R. C. Archibald's list published in 

 Tran. Roy. Soc., Canada, sec. 3, for 1905, p. 79, and to his manuscript extending the list from 1905 to 1909 kindly lent me. (Archibald's list was 

 later published in Science, 44, S71-87S, Dec. 22, 1916.) 



