Section I. 

 LIFE. 



MAJORA. 



1. J. B. Newcomb. Genealogical memoir of the Newcomb family, containing records of 



nearly every person of this name in America from 1635 to 1874; also the first genera- 

 tion of children descended from females who have lost the name Newcomb by mar- 

 riage. With notices of the family in England during the past seven hundred years. 

 Elgin, 111. Printed for the author by Knight & Leonard, Chicago, 1874. 600 pp. 



S. Newcomb and father, pp. 437 and 36S; ancestors, pp. 3, 4, 22, 50,85, 1S5. A new edition ot this work (6x1021 pp.) 

 was published by The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., of New Haven, Conn., in 1923. S. Newcomb, etc., pp. 540-542,etc. 



2. A. Cayley. Address before Roj T al Astronomical Society on presenting the gold medal of 



society to S. Newcomb on Feb. 13, 1874. 

 Mo. Notices R. Astr. Soc, vol. 34 (Feb., 1874): 224-233. 



Also in A. Cayley, Collected Mathematical Papers, Cambridge, vol. 9 (1890): 176-184. 

 Contains an account of S. Newcomb's writings. 



3. M. Benjamin. In Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 



New York, Appleton, vol. 4 (1888): 502-503. 

 Anonymous sketch with wood-cut portrait. 



4. F. Cajori. Teaching and history of mathematics in the United States. 



Washington, Gov't, print, oft'., 1890. 



Pp. 272, 277: Sketch of S. Newcomb's teaching and work at Johns Hopkins University. 



5. S. Newcomb. Formative influences. 



Forum, vol. 11 (Apr., 1S91): 183-191. 



Deals with Ms early life to the beginning of his scientific career. 



6. G. B. Goode. editor. The Smithsonian Institution, 1S46-1896. The history of its 



first half century. 



Washington, Gov't, print, oft'., 1S97. 

 S. Newcomb,-pp. 580, 5S1, 593. 



7. Anonymous. National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 



New York, J. T. White & Co., vol. 7 (1897): 17-18. 



8. W. Valentiner, editor. Handworterbuch der Astronomie. 4 vols. 



Breslau and Leipzig, Barth, 1897-1902. 

 Various references. 



9. W. Alvord. Address of the retiring president of the Society in awarding the Bruce Medal 



to Professor Simon Newcomb. 

 Publ. Astr. Soc. of the Pacific, vol. 10 (Apr 2, 1898); 49-58. 



10. S. Newcomb. Reminiscences of an astronomer. 



Atlantic Mo., vol. 82 (Aug., 1898): 242-253; (Sept.): 384-393; (Oct.): 519-526. 



These articles are reproduced with slight changes in chapters X and XI, pages 271-333 of no. 14 (below). 

 Reviewed in Nature, vol. 58 (Aug. IS, 1S98): 376; (Oct. 13, 1898): 583-584; (Oct. 20, 1898): 606. 



11. C. E. L. Win gate, etc., editors. Universities and their sons. 



Boston, R. Herndon Co., vol. 3 (1899): 12-13 (Portrait). 



12. M. Loewy. Scientific worthies. No. XXXII: Simon Newcomb. 



Nature, vol. 60 (May 4, 1899): 1-3 (separate portrait plate supplement). 



Reprinted in Johns Hopkins University Circulars, no. 140, vol. 18 (June, 1899): 70-71 



13. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year Books, Nos. 1-8 for the years 1902-1909; 



published 1903-1910: No. 1, p. xxxi; No. 2, p. xxi; No. 3, pp. 90-92; No. 4, pp. 19, 

 26, 47, 83-S4; No. 5, p. 19; No. 6, p. 173-174; No. 7, pp. 50, 180; No. 8, pp. 24, 52, 

 206. 



Record of grants to S. Newcomb and reports of his researches. 



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