Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ^ locatedthroughout the country as to be reasonably well protected fromattack, so that they may serve the military establishment in case offoreign invasion from any quarter or of internal uprisings in anylocality. Smithsonian Report, 1909.—Stone. Plate 1,. Simon Newcomb. SIMON NEWCOMB. [With 1 plate.] By Oemond Stone, Simon Newcomb was a unique figure in American science.^ Per-haps no other great American scientist was so many sided, no other,who ajjproached him in versatility, stood at or so near the head invarious departm
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ^ locatedthroughout the country as to be reasonably well protected fromattack, so that they may serve the military establishment in case offoreign invasion from any quarter or of internal uprisings in anylocality. Smithsonian Report, 1909.—Stone. Plate 1,. Simon Newcomb. SIMON NEWCOMB. [With 1 plate.] By Oemond Stone, Simon Newcomb was a unique figure in American science.^ Per-haps no other great American scientist was so many sided, no other,who ajjproached him in versatility, stood at or so near the head invarious departments of science. He was mathematician; celestialmechanician; astronomical observer, computer, and statistician;fundamental star cataloguer; author of memoirs on the lunar theory,of planetary tables, of books on popular astronomy, of mathematicalschool and college texts, of books on economics; novelist; president ofa society for psychical research ! Simon Newcomb was born March 12, 1835, in Wallace, a village ofNova Scotia, but he was of New England descent. At the age of 17he went to Salem, Massachusetts, and later to Maryland, where hetaught school for several years. When 22 he became assistant in theNautical Almanac office, then located at Cambridge, Massachusetts,and also a student in the Lawrence Scientific School
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