Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-05 | Page 1 | Astronomers and the Naval Observatory

Astronomers and the Naval Observatory ST Louis April 4It is stated here that many leading astronomers of the United States are uniting their forces and will memorialize the next Congress to transfer the control of the United States naval observatory ob-servatory Washington from the navy department de-partment to the hands of i purely scientific and astronomical board This is the outgrowth out-growth of the dissatisfaction among various ous observatories growing out of the prac tice of supplying telegraph companies with time signals for commercial use