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1900, June 11 : — ^LL.D., University of Cracow, Austria, on the celebration of the 



500th anniversary of its foundation. 



1901, Feb. 22 : — One of the two to receive the first award of the Sylvester Prize 



of Johns Hopkins University. The prize was a handsome bronze medal- 

 lion of the late Professor Sylvester, framed in oak. In the course of 

 the ceremonies, Professor Gilman announced the award as follows : 

 " The first impression of this tablet is presented to Lord Kelvin, who 



lectured here on 'The Nature of Light,' in 18S4 The second 



copy of the tablet is now offered to Professor Simon Newcomb, a dis- 

 tinguished astronomer, who has been a friend of the University from 

 its inception, and who guided the affairs of the Mathematical Department 

 for many years." 

 1901, Oct. 8,21 : — .Elected Member of the Russian Astronomical Society. 



1901, Nov. 12 : — ^Elected Hon. Member ■ of the Royal Society of New South 



Wales, Sydney, Australia. 



1902 : — ^LL.D.. Johns Hopkins University, at the celebration of the twenty-fifth 



anniversary of the founding. 



1902, Sept. 6: — Math.D., University of Christiania, Norway, in connection with 



the celebration of the Centenary of the birth of Niels Henrik Abel. 



1903 : — Appointed a member of the Advisory Committee in Astronomy of the 



Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 1903, Prof. Newcomb received 

 a grant of ?3,000 and in 1904 a grant of .Ï-2.500 from this Institution 

 for expenses in connectio'i with investigations "for determining the 

 elements of the moon's motion and testing the law of gravity." 



1904 :— LL.D. Toronto. 



1904 : — President of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences which met 



at St. Louis. 

 1904 : — One of the Vice-Presidents of the Mathematics and Physics Section of 



the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 1904 : — Elected Corresponding Member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 

 1904 : — Elected Corresponding Member of the Kais. Akad. Wiss. of Vienna. 



Professor JSTewcomb has also been honoured by the following 

 learned bodies. Dates are not available. 



National Geographic Society. Washington. 



Washington Scientific Club. 



Sociedad Astronomica de Mexico. 



Kais. Geog. Gesellschaft, St. Petersburg. 



Akad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersburg, 



Society for the Encouragement of Arts. ^lanufactures and Commerce, London. 



Heidelburg Literary Society of Trifhu, Ohio. 



Congrès International de Chronométrie. 



Kon. Akad. Vetensk., Upsala, Sweden. 



Kôn..Bayern Akad. Wiss., Munich. 



Kon. Akad. Vetensk., Lund. Sweden. 



National Institute of Genoa. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY, 



The most extensive Bibliograpliy. of the Life and Works of Pro- 

 fessor Xewcomb, which had been previously published, appeared in The 



