 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 940 pages
...generous policy and his high personal ideals were of immense service to his colleagues and to the country. The establishment of a National Observatory in Washington was proposed by John (¿uincy Adams in 18ÍÍ5, but it was not until 1844 that the United States Naval Observatory was built... | |
 | 1900 - 600 pages
...policy, and his high personal ideals, were of immense service to his colleagues and to the country. The establishment of a national observatory in Washington...injustice Gilliss was not appointed to be its first director.8 This place fell to Lieutenant MF Maury. Gilliss had been on detached service for some years,... | |
 | Robert Marion La Follette - 1906 - 532 pages
...generous policy and his high personal ideals were of immense service to his colleagues and to the country. The establishment of a national observatory in Washington...appointed to be its first director. This place fell to Lieut. MF Maury. Gilliss had been on detached service for some years, and a rigid construction of rules... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 976 pages
...The establishment of a National Observatory in Washington was proposed by John Quincy Adams in 182"), but it was not until 1844 that the United States Naval...injustice Gilliss was not appointed to be its first director.1 This place fell to Lieut. MV Maury. Gilliss had been on detached service for some years,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 942 pages
...The establishment of a National Observatory in Washington was proposed by John Quincy Adams in 182"), but it was not until 1844 that the United States Naval Observatory was built by Lieutenant (lilliss, of the Navy, from plans which he had prepared. By what seems to have been an injustice Gilliss... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 940 pages
...generous policy and his high personal ideals were of immense service to his colleagues and to the country. The establishment of a National Observatory in Washington was proposed by John Quincy Adams in 18-"), but it was not until 1.S44 that the United States Naval Observatory was built by Lieutenant... | |
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In the formation of a scientific and, as it were, a moral standard a few names will be remembered among us, and no one will stand higher than that of Henry. His wise, broad, and generous policy and his high personal ideals were of immense service to his... 