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$400 for the "most thorough discussion of the 

 theory of the rotation of the earth, with refer- 

 ence to the recently discovered variation of 

 latitude. ' ' 



1895, June 17: Elected one of the eight Foreign 

 Associate Members of the Academie des Sciences 

 de l'Institut de France, to succeed Helmholtz, 

 the celebrated physiologist. It is said that New- 

 comb was the first native American since Frank- 

 lin so honored. See also 1874. 



1895, Aug. 1: Elected Foreign Associate of the 

 Astronomical Section of the Eeale Accademia 

 dei Lineei, Rome. (Number of astronomers lim- 

 ited to 8.) See also 1906. 



1895, Nov. 21 : Appointed a Delegate on the part 

 of the United States to the Conference, held in 

 London, July, 1896, under the auspices of the 

 Royal Soeiety, to discuss the question of pre- 

 paring, by international cooperation, an adequate 

 catalogue of scientific literature. See also 1877. 



1896: Elected an Honorary Member of the Inpera- 

 torskaja Akademija nattk (Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences), Petrograd. (Number limited to 

 50.) See also 1875. 



1896, Jan. 4: Elected an Officer of the Legion of 

 Honour of France. The grade of Officer, which 

 is next above that of Chevalier, is limited to 

 4,000, mostly Frenchmen. Simon Newcomb was 

 authorized by Congress to receive this decora- 

 tion (see Congressional Becords, March 3, 1897) ; 

 for the Constitution of the United States pro- 

 vides (Art. 1, Sec. 9, Par. 7) : "No title of no- 

 bility shall be granted by the United States ; and 

 no person holding any office of profit or trust 

 under them shall, without the consent of Con- 

 gress, accept of any present, emolument, office or 

 title, of any kind whatever, from any king, 

 prince or foreign state." 



1896, May: Delegate to the Conference at Paris 

 on the Astronomical Constants. 



1896, June 15-16: Invited guest at celebration in 

 Glasgow of Lord Kelvin 's Jubilee. 



1896, June 16: LL.D., Glasgow University, Glas- 

 gow. 



1896, June 18 : Se.D., Cambridge University, Eng- 

 land. In introducing Simon Newcomb, the 

 public orator said that his distinction was 

 owing to a great degree to his comparative re- 

 searches in ancient lunar observations. 



1896, Oct. 22 : LL.D., Princeton University, Prince- 

 ton, at the celebration of the sesqui-centenary 

 of its foundation. 



1896, Dec. 30: Elected President of the American 

 Mathematical Society, New York, for two years. 



Delivered Presidential Address Dee. 29, 1897. 

 See also 1891. 



1897: Awarded the Schubert Prize (900 roubles = 

 $460.80) by the Imperatorskaja Ajademija 

 naiik, Petrograd. This was the third time that 

 the prize had been awarded. The award is 

 made biennially for notable achievement in theo- 

 retical astronomy. The prize is the income 

 from a foundation of 10,550 roubles in honor of 

 F. F. Schubert, a general in the infantry and a 

 former member of the Academy. See also 1875. 



1897, Jan. 4: Elected a Member of the Columbia 

 Historical Soeiety of Washington, D. C. 



1897, Feb. 12 : Elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the Imperatorskaja Russkoje Geograficeskoje 

 obscestvo (Imperial Russian Geographical So- 

 ciety), Petrograd. 



1897, Feb. 22: At the celebration of the 21st An- 

 niversary of the founding of Johns Hopkins 

 University, requested by the faculty and friends 

 to sit for a portrait to be given to the Univer- 

 sity. This painting was executed by R. G. 

 Hardie and was reproduced in the American 

 Journal of Mathematics for 1899. See also 1884. 



1897, Mar. 1: Elected a Foreign Associate of So- 

 cieta Italiana delle Scienze (detta dei XL.) 

 Rome. The society has 40 Italian and 12 For- 

 eign Associate members in the Class of Physics- 

 Mathematics. He was the only American in the 

 class. See also 1902, 1906. 



1897, March 12: Placed on the retired list of the' 

 U. S. Navy by reason of age and therefore 

 ceased to be Superintendent of the American 

 Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. See also 

 1857. 



1897, June 30: Elected Honorary Corresponding 

 Member of the Royal Soeiety for the Encour- 

 agement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 

 (co mm only called the Royal Society of Arts), 

 London. 



1897, Nov. 27: The first recipient of the Bruce 

 Gold Medal, from the Astronomical Soeiety of 

 the Pacific. In 1897, Miss Bruce gave to this 

 Soeiety "a sum of money for the foundation of 

 a gold medal, to be awarded annually as a recog- 

 nition of services to astronomy, and to be given 

 to the one judged most worthy, without restric- 

 tion as to race, nationality or sex. No person 

 shall be twice a recipient." In 1891, Miss 

 Bruce gave Professor Pickering $6,000, to be 

 distributed for the promotion of astronomical 

 research. A portion of this amount was as- 

 signed to Professor Newcomb. 

 1898: Cape Newcomb of the Hoyt Islands, Hub- 

 bard Bay, West Greenland, is named after 



