First Astrophysical Observatory Appropriation

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Summary

United States Congress makes the initial appropriation, totalling $10,000, for the maintenance of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897, p. 425, 841.
  • United States Statutes at Large, Volume 26, Chapter 542. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1891, p. 948.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

March 3, 1891

Topic

  • Astrophysics
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Astronomy

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