SIMON NEWCOMB. 
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Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, 1877 to 1897. 
Lectured on Political Economy at Harvard, 1879 and 1880. 
Professor of Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, 
and editor of the American Journal of Mathematics for many 
years from 1884. 
President of the Society for Psychical Research from 1885. 
Retired with the rank of Rear Admiral, 1897. 
As many of this audience were out of town during the 
summer, it is proper to add that Professor Newcomb died at 
Washington, D. C., July 11, 1909, after many months of 
severe suffering. Official honors were paid at his funeral, 
which was attended by the President and high officials of the 
Government; representatives of two of the foreign countries 
that had honored him in life were among the honorary pall- 
bearers; he was buried with the ceremony prescribed for a 
Rear Admiral, the body being escorted to Arlington by 
several companies of marines and their band. 
Tonight other foreign representatives honor the Society 
and its late President by their presence. One of them, a 
fellow-member in several learned societies and the Ambas- 
sador from the land of his birth, will now speak of his friend. 
ADDRESS OF RT. HON. JAMES BRYCE, O. M., 
AMBASSADOR FROM GREAT BRITAIN. 
Although there are many here present who knew Professor 
Newcomb more intimately than I did, and who are far more 
competent to speak of his scientific genius and the work he 
did for science, there is no one who admired that genius 
more warmly, or who comes more willingly to pay a tribute 
both to his splendid gifts and to the elevation of his char- 
acter. Nor is it unfitting that such a tribute should come 
from one who is privileged to represent in this country both 
Nova Scotia, which gave birth to the illustrious man we 
commemorate and where he was known and honored, and 
Great Britain, to many of whose scientific societies he be- 
longed as an honorary member. 
