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Abstract

AMERICA has lost one of her foremost astronomers by the death, in his seventy-seventh year, of Dr. George William Hill, He graduated at Rutgers College in 1859, and in 1861 became an assistant in the office of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanack. He afterwards became chief of this publication. From 1898 to 1901 he was lecturer in celestial mechanics at Columbia University, New York. In 1887 the Royal Astronomical Society awarded him its gold medal for his researches in connection with the lunar theory. He was a foreign member of that society, and also of the Royal Society, and a corresponding member of the Institute of France. In 1892 Cambridge University conferred on him its honorary Sc.D. He was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1894 to 1896. In 1905 the Carnegie Institution published a volume of his collected mathematical works, with an introduction by Henri Poincaré. Dr. Hill was also the author of a work on “The Theory of Jupiter and Saturn.”