Abstract
SIMON NEWCOMB and Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli were born within two days of one another, the former at Wallace, Nova Scotia, on March 12, 1835, and the latter at Savigliano, Piedmont, on March 14, and they died within a year of one another, Newcomb passing away on July 11, 1909, and Schiaparelli on July 4, 1910. Counting among their most distinguished contemporaries Lockyer, Huggins, Gill, Janssen, Loewy, Otto Struve, Auwers, Asaph Hall, Langley and Young, Schiaparelli was long regarded as the foremost of Italian astronomers, while Newcomb became to be recognised as the most eminent man of science in the United States.
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