The Naval Observatory: Its History, Activities and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1926 - 101 pages |
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2d sess 9 Stat act of March administration 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 computations Cong Congress coöperation Department of Astronomical Depot of Charts determination District of Columbia duties eclipse Ephemeris and Nautical equatorial erection establishment Expenditure Appropriation Expenditure February 25 fiscal furnish Greenwich House rept Hydrographic Office improving the tables institution issued January 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 Photographic Zenith Tube planets positions prime vertical published purchase purpose Rear Admiral repair scientific Secretary Serial servatory ships solar eclipse 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 v - PUBLICATIONS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay. 378 pp.
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 8 - States, the limitation was inserted. " that nothing in this act, or the act hereby revised, shall be construed to authorize the construction or maintenance of a permanent astronomical observatory.
Page 66 - These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration. They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans...
Page 82 - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
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 - ... 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...