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THE LICK OBSERVATORY. | 7 |
| SUPPORT OF THE INSTITUTION. |
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The interest on $90,000 is entirely insufficient for the support of the Observatory, and the deficiency is made up by annual appropriations from the University income. While these appropriations are as large as can be properly made, they are still far less than actual wants. The Lick Observatory is one of the best equipped institutions in the world, but its annual income is much less than that of any other establishment of the first class. |
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For the purposes of comparison, it may be stated that the number of persons employed in purely astronomical work at some of the leading observatories is: Observatory of Greenwich, about 30; Observatory of Harvard College, about 40; Observatory of Paris, about 17 astronomers and many computers; Observatory of Pulkowa (St. Petersburg), about 16; Observatory of Rio Janeiro, about 16; Observatory of Washington, D. C., about 19. The Lick Observatory has seven observers in all. The annual incomes of some of the establishments named above are three times those of the Lick Observatory, and the expenses of all of them are at least twice as much. |
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It is worth while to give this comparison explicitly, because the impression prevails that the Lick Observatory is as liberally endowed as it is magnificently equipped; whereas the facts are, unfortunately, very different. |
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GIFTS TO THE LICK OBSERVATORY. |
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The income of the Observatory is barely sufficient for its current work. For the purchase of special instruments and apparatus and for the expenses of expeditions sent to foreign countries for the purpose of observing total solar eclipses, we have had to depend on the gifts of numerous friends. Among them should be named: Miss C. B. Bruce of New York City; Hon. D. O. Mills of New York; City; Hon. C. F. Crocker of San Francisco; Edison General Electric Company of New York City; Mrs. Phebe Hearst of San Francisco; W. W. Law of New York City; Dr. S. P. Langley, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; |
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