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XII. Nation, Sept. 6, 1888, XLVII, 195, gives an account of his "Colossal 



researches in theoretical astronomy." 



XIII. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Amei-ican Biography in six volumes, 1888. 



IV, 502-3. Article, " Newcomb " with portrait. 



XIV. Encyclopsedia Britannica Supplement, Vol. IV. Stoddard & Co., N.Y., 



1889. Article, "Newcomb." 



XV. The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States, by Florian 



Cajori. Washington, 1890, pp. 272-277. 



[Sketch of his teaching and work at Johns Hopkins University. 

 " No American would have been more worthy of succeeding Sylvester. 

 As an astronomer his name has long shone with a lustre which fills with 



pride every American breast." p. 272.] 



XVI. Autobiographical sketch — " Formative Influences." Forum XI, 183, April, 



1891. 



XVII. Astronomy and Astro-Physics, XIII, 413-14; May, 1894. 



XVIII. Biography with portrait of J. M. Colaw. The American Mathematical 

 Monthly, Vol. 1, pp. 253-256, Aug., 1894. 



XIX. New York Tribune, 1895, (a) June 18, p. 4, Col. 4. French Academy 



(6) June 20, p. 6, Col. 6. His Honors; (c) July 14, p. 18, Col. 4-5; 

 A Great Astronomer, by Dr. A. N. McGee, 1896; (d) Cambridge Honors, 

 June 10, p. 7, col. 4, and June 19, p. 7, col 2; (e) Back at work, 

 Oct 25 (III.), p. -5, Col. 1, 1897; (/) Career, March 12, p. 2, Col. 4, 

 1899; (g) Oxford Honors, June 9, p. 7, Col. 3, 1900; (h) How Cured, 

 April 28, p. 6, Col. 5 (correspondence to The Chicago Record) ; 

 (i) Cracow Honor, June 11, p. 7, Col. 4, 1902; (;) Norway Honor, 

 Sept. 7, p. 6, Col. 6. 



XX. The Retirement of Prof. Newcomb. Scientific American, LXXVI, 186; 



March 20, 1897. 

 XXXI. Newcomb and Johns Hopkins University. Science, n. s. V, 690-91; April 

 30, 1897. Also Johns Hopkins University Circular. 



XXII. Current Literature, XXI, No. 5, pp. 392-393, May, 1897. "The Retir- 

 ment of Professor Newcomb." Also XXII, 523-4, Dec., 1897, an article 

 by F. G. Carpenter. 



XXIII. Bibliography of Life and Works, by R. C. Archibald, and Reprint of 

 XIX (c) 1895, July 14, and also of XX. Halifax Herald, October 9. 

 1897. 



XXIV. The Smithsonian Institute, 1S4G-18!)G. The history of its first half 



century. Ed. by G. B. Goode. Wash. 1897. "Newcomb," p. 580, 581, 593. 



XXV. Handworterbuch der Astronomie Herausgegeben von Dr. W. 



Valentiner. 4 vols., Breslau and Leipzig, 1897-1902. Various references. 



XXVI. The National Cyclopsedia of American Biography, VII, 17. Jas. T. 

 ^^^lite & Co., N.Y., 1897. 



XXVII. " Reminiscences of an Astronomer." [S. Newcomb.] Atlantic Monthly, 

 1898, Vol. 82. Aug., pp. 244-53; Sept., pp. 384-93; Oct., pp. 519-26. 



XXVIII. Portrait, New England Magazine, XVIII, 647, Aug., 1898. Also that 

 painted by R. G. Hardie, of Boston, in XIX. 10, Sept., 1898. 



XXIX. Portrait, 4to size, in Amer. Jl. of Math. XXI, No. 1, Jan., 1899. [From 

 a portrait painted for Johns Hopkins University by R. G. Hardie of 

 Boston, photographed by A. D. Wyatt of Brattleboro.] 



XXX. Portraits: Rev. of Reviews. XXV. 4.'',0. April. 1890. Harper's Weekly, 



XLIII. 1184. Nov. 2.5, 1899. New Eng. Mag., XXI, 264, Nov., 1899- 



XXXI. "Scientific Worthies. XXXII. Simon Newcomb," by M. Loewy. director 



