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Jan. 9, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller elected Chancellor. 

 March 2, National Zoological Park established by an Act of Congress. 



1890 



Jan. 8, Time of annual meeting ot Board of Regents changed to the fourth Wednesday 



in January. 

 March i, Astrophysical Observatory established in a wooden edifice built at the cost 



of the Smithsonian Institution, on the grounds south of the Smithsonian 



building. 

 April 26, Bequest of Jerome H. Kidder of $5000 and June 5 a gift from Alexander 



Graham Bell of $5000 for astrophysical research received. 

 April jo, National Zoological Park placed under the direction of the Regents of the 



Smithsonian Institution by order of Congress. 

 Aug. 30, Congress appropriated $25,000 to make the west wing of Smithsonian building 



fireproof. 



1891 



March 3, First appropriation ($10,000) made for the maintenance of the Astrophysical 



Observatory by Congress. 

 Sept. 22, Gift of $200,000 received from Thomas G. Hodgkins of Setauket, New York. 



1892 



Oct. 31, 1892, to Jan. 31, 1893, Participation in the Columbian Historical Exposition in 



Madrid. 

 Now. 25, Death of Thomas G. Hodgkins, who left by will additional gifts to the Institution. 



Jan. 2j, New seal, designed by A. St. Gaudens, adopted by the Institution. 



May i to Oct. 31, Participation in the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. 



June i, Study table maintained at the Naples Zoological Station for occupancy by a stu- 



dent in Biology designated by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Oct. 25, Received $42,000 West Shore Railroad four per cent bonds from bequest of 



Thomas G. Hodgkins. 



1894 



March 12, Act amending Revised Statutes, title 73, relative to constituent members of 

 the " Establishment," and providing that the Institution may have power to 

 receive money or other property by gift, bequest, or devise, passed by Con- 

 gress. 



May 79, An additional sum of $8000 received from the Hodgkins estate. 



July 28, National Herbarium recalled from the Department of Agriculture. 



Sept. 12, Death of Robert Stanton Avery, who bequeathed his property to the Institution. 



1895 



Jan. 28, Hamilton Fund increased to $2000 by deposit of accrued interest, in the United 



States Treasury. 



Aug. 9, Award of prizes from the Hodgkins Fund made. 

 Sept. 18 to Dec. 31, Participation in the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, 



Georgia. 

 Dec. 25, Complete set of the publications of the Institution deposited in the Library of 



Pembroke College, Oxford, the college from which Smithson was graduated. 



1896 



June /<?, President of the United States directed the application of the Civil Service rules 



from July I, 1896, to all persons in the Bureaus under the Institution whose 



salaries are paid out of government appropriations. 

 July 18, Paintings, engravings, and other art works, deposited in the Corcoran Gallery ot 



Art in 1874 and later, returned to the Institution at the request of the Regents. 

 Sept. 6, Death of G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in 



charge of the National Museum. 

 Nov. 18, Bronze tablet directed to be placed on Smithson's tomb by the Institution, and a 



replica in the English Church in Genoa, Italy. 



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