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1859, Aug.: Elected Member of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science. See 

 also 1874, 1876. 



1860 : Nautical Almanac office dispatched an ex- 

 pedition, in charge of S. Newcomb and W. Fer- 

 rel, to observe the total solar eclipse, in July, 

 north of Lake Winnipeg, Canada. See also 

 1857, 1869, 1870, 1878. 



1860, Jan. 25: Elected Fellow, in the Division of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy, of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. See 

 also 1870, 1880. 



1861, Sept. 21 : Commissioned Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the United States Navy by Abraham 

 Lincoln. See also 1877, 1897. 



1863, Aug. 4: Married to Miss Mary Caroline 

 Hassler, daughter of Dr. C. A. Hassler, U. S. N., 

 and granddaughter of Ferdinand Rudolph Hass- 

 ler, the founder of the U. S. Coast Survey. 

 -1869, Sept. 1: Elected Member of the National 

 -Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C. See 

 also 1878, 1881, 1883, 1902, 1903. 



1869 : Sent by the U. S. government to Des Moines, 

 Iowa, to observe the Solar Eclipse, Aug. 7. See 

 also 1860. 



1870: Sent by the U. S. government to Gibraltar 

 to observe the Solar Eclipse, Dec. 22. See also 

 1860. 



1870, May 24: Elected Associate Eellow (number 

 of such limited to 14 in the Division of Mathe- 

 matics and Astronomy) of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. See also 1860. 



1870, Nov. 11: Guest at a dinner of the Boyal 

 Astronomical Society Club, London. He was 

 also a guest at dinners of this club on the fol- 

 lowing dates: Jan. 8, 1875; Jan. 12, 1883; June. 

 1896; June 9, 1899. See also 1872, 1874. 



1871, May 13: Elected Member of the Philosoph 

 ical Society of Washington. See also 1879 

 1908. 



1871: Appointed Secretary of the Commission 

 created by Congress for the purpose of observ 

 ing the Transit of Venus, Dec. 9, 1879, and 

 which organized the expeditions sent out by the 

 United States government. See also 1882. 



1872, Nov. 8: Elected Associate Member of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society, London. See also 

 1870. 



1873: Appointed lecturer in Columbian (after- 

 wards George Washington) University. Re- 

 signed 1884. See also 1874, 1884. 



1873, Aug. 22: Elected at Hamburg a member of 

 the Astronomische Gesellschaft. See also 1887. 



1873, Dec. 16: Appointed correspondent of the 

 Observatoire de Paris. 



1874: Elected Fellow of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. See also 1859. 



1874: LL.D., Columbian University, Washington, 

 D. C, now George Washington University. The 

 following is quoted from the diploma: "Virum 

 clarum Simonem Newcomb coeli dinietiendi stel- 

 larumque errantium librandarum peritissimum 

 Legum Doctorem, etc." Since also 1873. 



1874, Jan. 19: Eleeted Correspondent of the 

 Aeademie des Sciences de l'Institut de France. 

 See also 1895, 1906. 



1874, Feb. 13: Awarded the gold medal of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society, London, for his 

 "tables of Neptune and Uranus and other 

 mathematical works. ' ' See also 1870. 



1875: Offered the directorship of the Harvard Ob- 

 servatory. See also 1858. 



1875, Feb. 8: Master of Mathematics and Doctor 

 of Natural Philosophy, University of Leyden, on 

 the celebration of the 300th anniversary of its 

 founding. 



1875, July 1 : LL.D., Yale University, New Haven. 

 See also 1877. 



1875, Nov. 10: Elected a Foreign Associate of the 

 Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien (Royal 

 Swedish Academy of Sciences), Stockholm. 



1875, Dec. 29 (Jan. 10) : Eleeted a Corresponding 

 Member of the Imperatorskaja Akedemija natik 

 (Imperial Academy of Sciences), Petrograd. See 

 also 1896, 1897. 



1876, June 27: Elected Corresponding Member of 

 the Konigliche Bayerischen Akademie der Wis- 

 sensehaften, Munich. 



1876, Aug. 30: Elected President of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Delivered retiring address in 1878. See also 

 1859. 



1877: Elected member of the Yale Alumni Asso- 

 ciation. See also 1875. 



1877, Sept. 15: Became the senior Professor of 

 Mathematics in the U. S. Navy — with the rela- 

 tive rank of Captain. Appointed Superintend- 

 ent of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Al- 

 manac Office. See also 1857, 1861, 1906. 



1877, Nov. 27: Elected Associate of the Kungliga 

 Vetenskaps-Societeten (Royal Scientific Society), 

 Upsala, Sweden. 



1877, Dec. 13: Elected Foreign Member of the 

 Royal Society, London. The number of such 

 members is limited to 50. See also 1890, 1895. 



1878: Sent by U. S. government to Separation, 

 Wyoming, to observe the total Solar Eclipse, 

 July 29. See also 1860. 



1878, Jan. 18: Elected Member of the American 



