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1903 : Elected Foreign Secretary of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. Held the office till his 

 death. See also 1869. 



1903: Appointed delegate to represent the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences at the meeting of 

 the International Association of Academies, 

 which occurred in London, June 4, 1903. See 

 also 1869. 



1903, Feb. 26: Eequested to send a letter to be 

 read at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary of the death of Fra Angelo Secchi, S.J., 

 at Kome, Italy. 



1903, Apr. : By the American Philosophical Society 

 appointed a Member (one of 26) of a Committee 

 to organize the Bicentenary Celebration of 

 Franklin's birth. See also 1878. 



1903-04: President of the International Congress of 

 Arts and Sciences, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 

 which met at St. Louis, September 19-25, 1904. 

 He received a diploma "for distinguished serv- 

 ices in promoting" the Congress. As President 

 of the Congress he was delegated to visit France 

 and England to invite scientists of these coun- 

 tries to participate in the Congress. On March 

 29 he gave a dinner at Paris, for a number of 

 French scientists. He was presented to Presi- 

 dent Loubet of France about this time. See 

 also 1906. 



1903, June: Presented to King Edward VII. of 

 England. 



1904: One of the Vice-presidents of the Mathe- 

 matics and Physics Section of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. See 

 also 1884. 



1904, May 20: Elected Corresponding Member of 

 the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 

 Vienna. (Limited to 80 members. ) 



1904, June: LL.D., University of Toronto. The 

 Senate of the University voted on June 6, 1900, 

 to confer the degree, but it was not till 1904 that 

 Professor Neweomb could attend a convocation 

 to receive it. 



1905, March 5: Elected Corresponding Member of 

 the Eeale Aeeademia della Scienze, Turin. 



1905, March 11: Invited by Senator Baron d'Es- 

 tournelles de Constant, Paris, to be one of the 

 "Membres d'Honneur" of the Comite' de 

 Defense des Interets Nationaux et de Coneilia- 

 Tion Internationale ' ' of which the Baron was 

 President Fondateur. 



1905, Apr. 28: Elected Corresponding Member of 

 L'Institut National Genevois, Geneva. 



1905, Nov. 8: By the German Emperor made 

 Knight of the Prussian Order "Pour le Merite 

 fur Wissenschaften und Kiinste. ' ' The Order 



of Merit is composed of two classes, military 

 and civil. The first class was founded by Fred- 

 erick the Great in 1740. The second class 

 founded by Frederick William IV., in 1842, for 

 distinction in Science and Art has always been 

 very highly prized. It is the only decoration 

 which Thomas Carlyle would ever accept. 

 Knighthood in this order is limited to 30 Ger- 

 mans and a not larger number of foreigners. At 

 the time of Simon Neweomb 's election there 

 were about 20 foreign Knights. The bill grant- 

 ing permission to Neweomb to accept this deco- 

 ration became law on April 6, 1906.- 2 Compare 

 1896. 



1906-07: President of the Cosmos Club, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



1906, Apr. 17-20 : Delegate at the Bicentenary 

 Celebration of Benjamin Franklin's Birth, at 

 Philadelphia, from: (1) Beale Aeeademia di 

 Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Padua; (2) Beale 

 Aeeademia dei Lincei, Rome; (3) L'Academie 

 des Sciences de l'Institut de France, Paris; (4) 

 Societa Italiana delle Scienze, Borne. Becipient 

 of one of the Franklin Bronze Medals struck in 

 accordance with an Act of Congress approved 

 April 27, 1904. See also 1874, 1878, 1895, 1897, 

 1903, below. 



1906, June 27 : Elected a Member of the Board of 

 Overseers of Harvard University, for 6 years. 

 Simon Neweomb was the first graduate of the 

 Lawrence Scientific School, not already a gradu- 

 ate of the College, who was elected to this body. 

 See also 1858. 



1906, June 30: Elected Honorary Member of the 

 Beale Aeeademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 

 Padua. See also above. 



1906, June 30: Commissioned Bear-Admiral when 

 Congress authorized the President to make pro- 

 motions of officers who had served in the Civil 

 War and who had been discriminated against by 

 previous laws. See also 1877. 



1906, Sept. 25: At the quatercentenary celebration 

 of the founding of the University of Aberdeen, 

 Scotland, on this date various honorary degrees 

 were conferred. Professor Neweomb was in- 

 vited to be present to receive the degree of LL.D., 

 but he was unable to accept the invitation. 



1906, Dee. 8: Bronze plaque sent from Berlin and 

 addressed to ' ' Dr. Simon Neweomb, St. Louis ' ' 

 by Th. Lewald, "Der Beichskommissar fur die 

 Weltausstellung in St. Louis, 1904," who wrote: 

 "In commemoration of Germany's participation 

 2 On the death of a Knight it is required that 



the decoration be returned to the German govern- 

 ment. 



