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1886, Oct. 11: Elected Associate of the Liverpool 

 Astronomical Society. 



1886, Nov. 6 : Elected President of the Alumni As- 

 sociation of the Lawrence Scientific School in 

 Harvard University. See also 1858. 



1887: President of the Political Economy Club of 



America. 

 1887: Elected one of the eight members of the 



Council of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, an 



international astronomical society that meets 



once in two years. See also 1873. 

 1887: The Russian Emperor orders his portrait to 



be painted and placed in the gallery of famous 



astronomers at the Imperial Observatory at 



Pulkovo. See also 1889. 



1887, Jan. 4: Elected Member of the Anthropolog- 

 ical Society, Washington, D. C. 



1887, Apr. 13: LL.D., Columbia University, New 

 York, on the occasion of the celebration of the 

 ' ' one hundredth anniversary of the Bevival and 

 Confirmation by the Legislature of the State of 

 New York of the Eoyal Charter granted in 

 1754." 



1887, Apr. 19: Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 Manchester, England. 



1888: Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, offi- 

 cially presents him with a pair of bronze vases 

 of exquisite workmanship and design and great 

 intrinsic value. 



1888, Nov. 3 : Elected Correspondent of the Konig- 

 liche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Gottingen. 

 See also 1907. 



18S9 : Presented with a rare vase of jasper on a 

 pedestal of black marble, six and one half feet 

 high, which, says Mr. Nyren's letter announcing 

 the gift, "in recognition of these merits, His 

 Majesty the Emperor has graciously sent as a 

 present for you from the observatory at Pul- 

 kovo. ' ' An attached silver label has the follow- 

 ing inscription : "A Monsieur le Prof esseur 

 Simon Newcomb de la part de 1 'Observatoire 

 Central Nicolas de Poulkovo 7/19 aout, 1889." 

 See also 1887. 



18S9, Sept.-Nov. : Foreign Associate of the Com- 

 mission of Organization of the Congres Interna- 

 tional de ChronomStrie. (In connection with the 

 World's Exposition, 1889.) 



1890, June 4: Elected a Member of the American 

 Academy of Political and Social Science, Phila- 

 delphia. 



1890, Nov.: Awarded the Copley Medal by the 

 Eoyal Society, London, for contributions to the 

 progress of gravitational astronomy. Frank- 

 lin was the first recipient of this medal, in 1753. 



The medal was accompanied by a cheque for £50. 

 See also 1877. 



1891, May 4: Elected Honorary Member (number 

 restricted to 50) of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences. 



1891, May 4: One of the twenty-one eminent scien- 

 tific men eleeted Honorary Members of the 

 Eoyal Institution of Great Britain, on the cele- 

 bration of the Faraday Centenary. Diploma 

 presented by the Prince of Wales on June 17. 



1891, Aug. : Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Committee of Organization for the Fifth Inter- 

 national Congress of Geologists, Washington. 



1891, Aug. 1: LL.D., Edinburgh University, Scot- 

 land. This degree was first offered in connection 

 with the celebration (April 17, 1884) of the 

 300th anniversary of the founding of the uni- 

 versity, and finally conferred in absentia. 



1891, Nov. 3 : Elected Honorary Fellow (number 

 limited to 15) of the Astronomical and Physical 

 Society of Toronto, now the Eoyal Astronomical 

 Society of Canada. 



1891, Nov. 7 : Eleeted a Member of the New York 

 Mathematical Society. In 1894 this society be- 

 came the American Mathematical Society. It 

 was on Newcomb 's suggestion (letter dated Jan. 

 29, 1891) that the Bulletin of the New York 

 Mathematical Society (started October, 1891) 

 was devoted to the interests of applied as well 

 as of pure mathematics. See also 1896. 



1891, Dec. 15: Elected Associate (number limited 

 to 50) of L'Aeademie Eoyale des Sciences, des 

 Lettres et des sciences morales et politiques et 

 des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Brussels. 



1892, July 6: Se.D., Dublin University, Ireland, at 

 the celebration of the tercentenary of its founda- 

 tion. 



1892, Dee. 7: Phil.Nat.D., University of Padua, 

 Italy, on the occasion of the celebration of the 

 300th anniversary of the appointment of Galileo 

 as a Professor. Degree conferred in absentia. 



1894, May 29: Announced that "Aristides" 

 (==S. Newcomb) was the winner of the first 

 prize, $150, of two ' ' Citizenship Prizes ' ' offered 

 in 1893 by the Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ington for the best essay on a given topic and 

 not over 3,000 words in length. The essay was 

 entitled: "The Elements which make up the 

 most useful citizens of the United States," and 

 was published in the American Anthropologist 

 for 1894. 



1895-1903 : Mathematical Editor of Science. 



1895: Appointed a judge of Instruments of Pre- 

 cision at the Atlanta Exposition. 



1895: Awarded the Astronomical Journal prize of 



