The Naval Observatory: Its History, Activities and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1926 - 101 pages |
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2d sess 31 Stat 9 Stat act of March Administrative American Ephemeris annual reports Appropriation Expenditure Appropriation astronomical observations astronomical observatory board of visitors buildings Bureau of Navigation Captain charge Charles Henry Davis Charts and Instruments chronometers clock Coast Cong Congress coöperation Department of Astronomical Depot of Charts determining District of Columbia duties eclipse Ephemeris and Nautical equatorial erection establishment Expedition Expenditure Appropriation Expenditure February 11 fiscal furnish Greenwich House rept Hydrographic Office improving the tables institution issued January January 24 July June Lieutenant Gilliss longitude magnetic Maury ment meridian circle monographs moon national observatory Nautical Almanac Office nautical instrument Naval Observa naval officer Navy Department organization personnel planets positions Prime Vertical published purchase purpose Rear Admiral repair scientific Secretary Serial servatory ships stars stations Survey telescope tion tory Transit Circle Transit of Venus U. S. Naval Observatory United States Naval vessels volumes Washington Observations Wilkes
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Page 13 - In the winter of 1837-38, while Lieutenant Wilkes was surveying the entrance to Savannah River, Lieutenant Gilliss, made certain astronomical observations at his request, but these were never reduced. In 1838 the United States Government sent out its first scientific expedition under authority of the act of May 14, 1836, and Wilkes, now a Commander, was placed in charge. The authority given covered explorations and surveys of the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas, " to determine the existence of doubtful...
Page 90 - EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the...
Page 66 - They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization divisions of any particular kind, as, for example, laboratories, libraries, blue print rooms, or any other kind...
Page vii - ... entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than half a million persons are required to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government....
Page 80 - That the facilities for research and illustration in the following and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and students of any institution of higher education now incorporated or hereafter...
Page 26 - That the number of professors of mathematics in the Navy shall not exceed twelve ; that they shall be appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall perform such duties as may be assigned them by order of the Secretary of the Navy, at the naval school, the Observatory, and on board ships of war, in instructing the midshipmen of the Navy or otherwise...
Page 52 - Navy is hereby authorized to arrange for the exchange of data with such foreign almanac offices as he may from time to time deem desirable, with a view to reducing the amount of duplication of work in preparing the different national nautical and astronomical almanacs and increasing the total data which may be of use to navigators and astronomers available for publication in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac...
Page viii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the Government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt...
Page vii - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than 400,000 persons are required to do the work imposed...
Page ii - American and foreign, to formulate those principles which lie at the basis of all sound administration, and to determine their proper adaptation to the specific needs of our public administration. The accomplishment of specific reforms the Institute recognizes to be the task of those who are charged with the responsibility of legislation and administration; but it seeks to assist, by scientific study and research, in laying a solid foundation of information and experience upon which such reforms...