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of the Paris Observatory. Nature, Vol. GO, No. 1540, May 4, 1899, 

 pp. 1-3. Separate plate — portrait — Supplement. Reprinted in Johns 

 Hopkins University Circular for June, 1S99. 



XXXII. Universities and her Sons. Boston, 1899, Vol. Ill, pp. 12-13. (Por- 

 trait). 



XXXIII. Histoire Abrégée de l'Astronomie, par Ernest Lebon, avec IG portraits. 

 Paris, Gauthier-Villars. 1899. [Preface dated June 15, 1899.] New- 

 comb, pp. 127, 151, 208, 211, 218, 220, 224, 258. Good portrait facing 

 p. 210. 



XXXIV. Mutter Erde. Weekly, edited by W. Spiemann, Berlin. Biography 

 with Portrait, II, 377-78, 1899. 



XXXV. Portrait. Youth's Companion, LXXIV, 7G ; Feb. 15, 1900. 



XXXVI. Biographical Sketch by Leo Brenner. Portrait. Astronoinische Rund- 

 schau, III, 160-161, 190r. 



XXXVII. Portrait. Amer. Rev. of Reviews, XXV, 430; April, 1902. 



XXXVIII. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Tenth Edition, XXXI, 140-41. Article 

 "Newcomb, Simon." A. & 0. Black, London, Edinburgh and New 

 York, 1902. 



XXXIX. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer. [Autobiography.] Houghton 

 and Mifflin, Boston, 1903 ; pp. 424. Portrait Frontispiece. 



XL. Who's Who in America, 1903-05. A. N. Marquis & Co. Chicago, 1903. 



Article. "Newcomb." 

 XLI. Portrait. Literary Digest, XXVII, 713; Nov. 21, 1903. 

 XLII. Carnegie Institution of Washington Year -Books. Nos. 1-3 for the years 



1902-04. Published 1903-05, No. 1, p. xxxi ; No. 2, p. xxi ; No. 3, 



pp. 90-92. 

 XLIII. The Encyclopaedia Americana. Ed. by F. C. Beach &c.. New York 



and Chicago, 1904. Article, "Newcomb ;" full page portrait ; volume XI. 

 XLIV, The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. 



Edited by Rossiter Johnson and J. H. Brown. Boston, 1904. Volume 8, 



Article, Newcomb. 

 XLV. Portrait. Rev. of Reviews, XXX, 323; Sept., 1904. 

 XLVI. Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue, 1905. 

 XLVII. Who's Who, 1905. A. & C. Black, London, 1905. Article " Newcomb." 



See also honours, bibliogkapht axd writings. 



In the above list no attempt is made to indicate all biographical 

 notes about Professor ISTewcomb. For example, reference is not made 

 to such standard works as, Allibone, Dictionary of Authors; Pratt, 

 People of the Period; Chambers, Biograph. Dictionary — ^because all 

 the facts contained in these sketches are included in those mentioned 

 above. 



Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, who had charge of the American Nurses 

 who went to Japan in 1904, is a daughter of Simon Newcomb. Sketches 

 of her life may be found in The Universal Cyclopœdia, Volume VII, 

 1900, and in Who's Who in America, 1905. 



HONOURS. 



1858:— B.Sc. Harvard. 



1859, Aug. : — Elected Member of the American Association for the Advancement 



of Science. 

 1861, Sept. 21 : — Appointed Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy. 



