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Simon Neweomb. (See National Geographic 



Magazine, Volume '9, page 3.) 

 1898-99 : Appointed by the Board of Overseers of 



Harvard College, a member of the Committee to 



visit the Observatory. See also 1858. 

 1898, Feb. 27: Elected Foreign Associate of the 



Eeale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettre ed 



Arti, Venice. 

 1898, Mar. 16: Elected Honorary Member of the 



Colonial Society of Massachusetts. (One of nine 



Honorary Members.) 



1898, Apr. 23: Elected Honorary Member of the 

 mathematics-natural science section of the 

 Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen, Am- 

 sterdam. (Number limited to 20.) 



1899, April: Appointed by Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Baltimore, as Delegate to the Jubilee cele- 

 bration of Sir George G. Stokes at Cambridge, 

 England, June 1-2. See also 1884. 



1899, June 8: D.C.L., Oxford University, England. 



1899, June 22: Elected Associate Corresponding 

 Member of the Eeale Istituto Lombardo di 

 Scienze e Lettere, Milan. 



1899, July 3: Elected Foreign Correspondent of 

 th<* Bureau des Longitudes, Paris. Number lim- 

 ited to 10. 



1899, Sept. 8: Elected the first President of the 

 Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. The Society was organized at the third 

 conference of Astronomers and Astrophysicists 

 held at the Yerkes Observatory in accordance 

 with arrangements made by a committee (of 

 which S. Neweomb was chairman) appointed at 

 the second conference held at Harvard Observa- 

 tory in August, 1898. S. Neweomb was presi- 

 dent of the society for six consecutive years. 



1899, Oct. 9-10 : Delegate from National Academy 

 of Sciences to a conference at Wiesbaden (called 

 by the Konigliche Preussischen Akademie der 

 Wissensehaften, Berlin) for the purpose of or- 

 ganizing an international association of learned 

 societies. See also 1883. 



1900, June 11: LL.D., University of Cracow, Aus- 

 tria, on the celebration of the 500th anniversary 

 of its foundation. Degree conferred in absentia. 



1900, Nov. 7: "With grateful recognition of the 

 valuable counsel you have given to this univer- 

 sity since its organization, the academic council 

 has unanimously recommended to the Trustees 

 that you be appointed Emeritus Professor of 

 Mathematics [at Johns Hopkins University] and 

 the Board of Trustees with like unanimity ap- 

 proved this recommendation." See also 1884. 



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 

 medallion of the late Professor Sylvester, 

 framed in oak. It was inscribed: "To Simon 

 Neweomb, U. S. N., LL.D., Professor of Mathe- 

 matics and Astronomy in the Johns Hopkins 

 University, 1884-1900. In recognition of his 

 distinction and his service." In the course of 

 the ceremonies, President 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 1884. . . . The 

 second copy of the tablet is now offered to Pro- 

 fessor Simon Neweomb, a distinguished astron- 

 omer, who has been a friend of the University 

 from its inception, and who guided the affairs of 

 the Mathematical Department for many years." 

 See also 1884. 



1901, Oct.: Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Heidelberg Literary Society, Heidelberg Uni- 

 versity, Tiffin, Ohio. 



1901, Oct. 8/21 : Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Busskoje Astronomiceskoje obseestvo, Petrograd. 



1901, Nov. 6: Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Eoyal Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 

 Australia. 



1902, Feb. 21 : LL.D., Johns Hopkins University, at 

 the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of the founding. "In recognition of his pre- 

 eminent attainments and important discoveries 

 in science. ' ' See also 1884. 



1902, Feb. 26: Guest at a banquet, given by emi- 

 nent citizens of New York, in honor of H. E. H. 

 Prince Henry of Prussia. He was one of the 94 

 participants chosen as "Captains of Industry" 

 in the United States. 



1902, Apr. 14: Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Sociedad Astronomica de Mexico. 



1902, June 1 : Presented to King Vittorio Emanuele 

 III. of Italy just after a meeting of the Eeale 

 Accademia dei Lincei. See also 1897. 



1902, Sept. 6: Math.D., University of Christiania, 

 Norway, in connection with the celebration of 

 the Centenary of the birth of Niels Henrik Abel. 

 Professor Neweomb went as delegate from the 

 National Academy of Sciences. During the cele- 

 bration he was presented to King Oscar of 

 Sweden and Norway. See also 1869. 



1903 : Appointed by the Trustees, one of five mem- 

 bers of the Advisory Committee in Astronomy of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 

 1903, Professor Neweomb received a grant of 

 $3,000, and in 1904 a grant of $2,500, in 1905, 

 $7,500, in 1906, $5,000, in 1907, $5,000 and in 

 1908, $5,000, from this Institution for expenses 

 in connection with his investigations. 



