The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-13
DEATH OF PROF. NEWTON
ONE OF TALES MOST EMINEN1
 PROFESSORS PASSES AWAY.


 His Last IIlness-Never Fully Recovered
 From un Operation Performed Months
 Ago-His Long and Notable Career as a
 Scholar-Honors Bestowed Upon Him
 His Death Loss to Yale and to New
 Haven.
 Professor Hubert A. Newton, head of the mathematical department of Yale, died at his home on Prospect street at about ten minutes after last evening. Dr. Y. H. Russell was in attendance upon him at his death.
 For years Professor Newton had been a sufferer from a chronic internal trou- ble and little over a year ago a neces- sary operation was successfully per formed by Dr. Russell. Professor New ton rallied and was able to resume his active school work in the university. It was thought that trouble from this complaint might be averted in the fu- ture, but little more than sixteen or seventeen days ago Professor Newton was seized by another form of the dis ease and grew worse rapidly. pr. Rus sell was at his side almost constantly, but three days ago 1t was evident that the chances were against Professor Newton's recovery. On Sunday night he relapsed into critical condition and it was feared that he might not live through the night. He had been under the influence of opiates since then and yesterday morning sank so rapidly that 1t was evident that death was matter of a very short time. He was unconscious for the last forty eight hours of his life.
 All of Professor Newtons family, in cluding his wife and two daughters, who have always resided at home, were at his bedside. Mrs. Newton's brother, MT. Stiles, was summoned and he had been with the family since Monday.
 Dr. Russell said yesterday afternoon Chat it was feared, after the opera tion of a year ago, that Professor New ton would never fully recover, but he was able to resume his regular college duties and continue them till almost the end of the last school year. No operation was performed this time, as none could afford relief It was evil dent from the first that the chances were that the attack would prove fatal. A trained nurse had been at Professor Newton's bedside since the attack
 Professor Newton was sixty-six years old, and had been in active service longer than any other member of the Yale faculty, He was probably the greatest American authority on meteor ology and was also leading authority on astronomy. He had taught the higher mathematics in the university for the past dozen years, before that his work being distributed more widely among general mathematics.
 In 1892 Professor Newton received what was perhaps the greatest honor conferred upon him during his life. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Great Britain.
 Professor Newton had always taken active interest in national and munich pal politics and was alderman from the
 
 throughout his life a democrat. Professor Newton had lived in the house in which he died for the last two years. The house is one which he built for himself and stands next to that of the late ex-Governor Morris on Pros pect street Prior to his building this house he resided for many years in the house at the corner of Elm and High streets opposite the Peabody Mu- scum, now occupied by the office of the dean of the college. He was a gen. tie, lovable man, man of highest aims and highest integrity. His death will be seriously mourned.
 Hubert Anson Newton was graduat- ed at Yale in 1850, after which he stud fed higher mathematics. In 1852 he was appointed tutor, and entering on that office in January, 1853, he was given charge of the entire mathema tical de- partment at once, owing to the illness | of Professor Anthony D. Stanley. He was elected full professor in 1855, and | after spending a year abroad, began the active discharge of the duties of his | chair, which he had since continued without interruption. His scientific work In pure mathematics includes re- searches "On the Construction of Ger tain Curves by Points," Certain Transcendental Curves" and similar papers, but his most valuable investi- gations have been in connection with | the meteors and like bodies. By col | lecting and discussing old and recent observations of November showers, he i demonstrated that the period of revo- | lution of these shooting stars must | have one of five accurately determined values. From similar sources he estab- | lished the secular motion of the node o1 | their mean orbit and explained how the real orbit could then be distinguished from the others by the calculation o1 the secular motion of the node for eacf of the assigned periods. This ccmputa. | ton was subsequently, made by other authorities, and so it became possible to connect the stream of meteors witt i the comet of 1866 as soon as the orbit | of that comet was computed. In 1S6. i he published a memoir upon the spor. 1 adic meteors, in which he determined 1 their numbers, their frequency in the ! space traversed by the earth, and tht 1 fact that most of them moved in Ions | orbits like the comets. Much of hi. work has been in the direction of ex. i amining results that have been obtain. l ed by others, from which he has de. 1 duced laws or general principles ap. | plicable to meteors. He was regarded l both in this country and abroad as ont 1 of the highest authorities on this sub. I