pee OTN 
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 1677 
Norr.—An astrophysical observatory has been established under the Smithsonian 
Institution, in part from the Smithsonian fund and in part by subscriptions of private 
individuals. 
Researches of great scientific and econmic value are carried on by every consid- 
erable civilized government at well-equipped astrophysical observatories. The 
investigations here contemplated are not provided for by any other observatory in 
this country. 
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY—APPROPRIATIONS. 
February 3, 1894—House. 
Mr. JoserH D. Sayers, from Committee on Appropriations, sub- 
mitted report (H. 348) on H. 5575 (sundry civil bill for 1895), which 
contained the following item: 
Astrophysical Observatory: Appropriation for 1894, $9,000; esti- 
mate for 1895, $9,000; recommended for 1895, $9,000. 
August 18, 1894. 
d Sundry civil act for 1895. 
For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction 
of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, appa- 
ratus, and miscellaneous expenses, $9,000. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 384.) 
March 2, 1895. 
Sundry civil act for 1896. 
For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction 
of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, appa- 
ratus, and miscellaneous expenses, $9,000. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 924.) 
OBJECTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
December 14, 1893. 
The PRESIDENT: 
The Smithsonian Institution is organized under the act of Congress 
approved August 10, 1846." Under this act, the President, the 
Vice-President, the Chief Justice, the then Bead of Departments, the 
Commissioner a the Patent Office, the Governor of the District of 
Columbia, and such other persons as they may elect honorary mem- 
- bers, are constituted an ‘‘ Establishment,” by the name of the Smith- 
sonian Institution. The Commissioner of the Patent Office has now 
an official superior in the Secretary of the Interior, whose name, nev- 
ertheless, does not appear upon the “Establishment” any more than 
that of the more recently created office of the Secretary of Agriculture. 
The members of the Institution may hold stated and special meet- 
ings for the supervision of its affairs, and the advice and instruction 
of the Board of Regents, at which the President, and in his absence 
‘Revised Statutes, Title LX XIII. 
