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The total expenditure for buildings and equipment to June 1,
1888, was $610,000, leaving only $90,000 as an endowment
fund. The interest on this sum is entirely inadequate to
supply the Observatory's needs, and the Regents of the
University have generously made annual appropriations
increasing the income to about $27,000. While these appropriations are as large as the University is justified in making,
yet they are only from one half to one third of those enjoyed
by other leading observatories in this country and abroad.
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Generous friends of the Observatory have provided means
for defraying the expenses of special investigations, or for
securing special equipment, some of them on several occasions.
It is a pleasure to record the names of the principal donors:
Hon. D. O. Mills, of New York; Hon. C. F. Crocker, Mrs. Phoebe
A. Hearst, and Mr. William H. Crocker, of San Francisco; Mr.
W. W. Law and the Edison General Electric Company, of
New York; the Smithsonian Institution, the U. S. Coast and
Geodetic Survey, and the National Academy of Sciences, of
Washington, D. C.
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It was the founder's purpose that the Observatory should be
"made useful in promoting science." To this end the efforts
of the staff of astronomers have been devoted almost exclusively to original research along advanced lines. Formal
instruction of students in astronomy is not undertaken.
Graduate instruction is offered by the Astronomers, in connection with the investigations in which they are engaged, or
on subjects which may be especially assigned to the students
by the Director, and is restricted to students qualified to be on
the footing of astronomical assistants. The Regents have
established three salaried fellowships in the Lick Astronomical
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