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Rh professor. He also, 1884-94, edited the "American Journal of Mathematics," published by Johns Hopkins university.

He was married August 4, 1863, to Mary Caroline, daughter of Doctor Charles Augustus and Anna J. (Nourse) Hassler and grand-daughter of Ferdinand Rudolph and Marianne (Gaillard) Hassler. Her grandfather was organizer and first superintendent of the United States coast survey, and her father surgeon in the United States navy. Professor Newcomb's eldest daughter is Doctor Anita Newcomb McGee, formerly acting assistant surgeon, United States army, in charge army nurse corps, and in 1904 supervisor of nurses in the Japanese army. Professor Newcomb has received the following honorary degrees: LL.D. from Columbian (now George Washington) university, District of Columbia, 1874; Yale, 1875; Harvard, 1884; Columbia, 1887; Edinburgh, Scotland, 1891; Glasgow, Scotland, 1896; Princeton, 1896; Cracow, Austria, 1900; Johns Hopkins, 1902; Toronto, 1905; Matt.M. and Ph.Nat.D., Leyden, 1875; Sc.D. Heidelberg, 1886; Padua, 1892; Dublin, 1892, and Cambridge, England, 1896; D.C.L. Oxford, 1899, and Math.D., Christiana, Norway, 1902. He has been elected to membership in all of the more important scientific societies of the Old World as well as of America. He was the first native American after Franklin to be honored by being made one of the eight foreign Associates of the Institute of France. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor of France in 1896. His membership in scientific societies also includes; member from 1869, vice-president, 1883-89, and foreign secretary since 1903, of the National Academy of Sciences; president of the Society of Psychical Research, 1885-86; president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1877; president of the Political Economy club, 1887; president of the American Mathematical Society, 1897-98; president of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America since its foundation in 1899; president of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904. He is honorary or corresponding member of the Royal Society, the Royal Institution and the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain and of the Royal Academies of Ireland, New South Wales (Australia), Bavaria, Prussia, Sweden, Upsala and Lund (in Sweden), Belgium, Holland, Haarlem, Rome and Lombardy; of the Sociedad Astronomic de Mexico; of the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften Zu Göttingen; of the Russian Astronomical Society; associate fellow