XL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1899. 



Receipts. 



Appropriation by Congress for maintenance of Astrophysical Observa- 

 tory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including 

 salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, 

 apparatus, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding 

 one thousand five hundred copies, and miscellaneous expenses, ten 

 thousand dollars (sundry civil act, July 1, 1898) §10, 000. 00 



Disbursements from July 1, 1S98, to Jane 30, 1899. 



Salaries or compensation: 



1 aid, 1 2 months, at §166.67 §'2, 000. 0-4 



1 junior assistant, 12 months, at $110 1 , 320. 00 



1 junior assistant, 2 months, at $100 200. 00 



1 instrument maker, 65 months and 22j days, 



at $80 577. 85 



1 sten(jgrapher, 12 months, at $75 900. 00 



1 fireman, 12 months, at $45 540. 00 



1 clerk, 1 month, at $100 100. 00 



1 carpenter, 14J days, at $3 43. 50 



1 carpenter, 37| days, at $3 11 2. 1 2 



1 carpenter, 6^ days, at $3 19. 50 



1 carpenter, 53 days, at $3 159. 00 



1 steam fitter, 6J days, at $3 19. 50 



1 steam fitter, 1 day, at $3 3. 00 



1 bricklayer, 3 days, at $3 9. 00 



1 skilled laborer, 12J^ days, at $2, and tinner, 1 



day, at $3 27. 50 



1 painter, 12J days, at $2 25. 00 



1 painter, 2 days, at $2.50 5. 00 



1 laborer, 1^ days, at $1.50 2. 25 



1 laborer, \2h days, at $1.50 18. 75 



1 laborer, 4 days, at $1. 50 6. 00 



1 laborer, 9J days, at $1.50 14. 25 



1 laborer, h day, at $1.50 .75 



1 laborer, 8 days, at $1.50 12. 00 



1 laborer, 1 day, at $1.50 1 . 50 



1 laborer, ^ day, at $1.50 .75 



1 laborer, 3 days, at $1.50 4. 50 



1 laborer, | day, at $1.50 1. 12 



1 laborer, ^ day, at $1.25 .62 



1 cleaner, 115 days, at $1 115. 00 



Total salaries or compensation $6, 238. 50 



General expenses: 



Apparatus 2, 134. 84 



Books 161.73 



Illustrations 35. 87 



Freight 35. 10 



Fuel 1 1 6. 87 



Furniture 74. 45 



Limiber 112. 58 



Postage and telegrams 2. 92 



