Taiaro or Kings Island.. TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO U.S. Expl. Expd., 1839. Puka-Puka, Henuake, Honden, or Dog Island. U. S. Expl. Expd., 1839. Kauehi or Vincennes Island.. Raraka Island__. King George Islands. Aratica or Carlshoff Island. Rangiroa, Krusenstern, and Lazareff Islands.. Tauere, St. Simyeon, or Resolution Island... Makemo Island, northeast passage into lagoon. U. S. S. Albatross, 1899. Fakarava Atoll.. U. S. S. Albatross, 1899. PHOENIX Group Taloo or Papetoai Harbor, Murea Island.---- U. S. Expl. Expd., 1839. South coast of Oahu Island, Honolulu, to Pearl U. S. Expl. Expd., 1840. Lochs... U. S. S. California 1873-5. Kaneohe, Oahu Island.. Honolulu Harbor, Oahu Island Pearl River and Lochs, Oahu Island Waiakea Harbor, or Hilo Bay, Hawaii Island.. Midway Islands Wells Harbor and Seward Roads, Kaunakakai Harbor, Molokai Island U. S. Expl. Expd., 1840. U. S. Expl. Expd., 1841. U. S. Expl. Expd., 1841. JU. S. S. Fenimore Cooper, 1867. U. S. S. Fenimore Cooper, 1867. CAROLINE ISLANDS U. S. S. Jamestown, 1870. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF NAVAL OBSERVATORY NAVY DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY, From: Superintendent Naval Observatory. To: Chief of Bureau of Navigation. Subject: Report of the Superintendent Naval Observatory for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924. Rear Admiral W. D. MacDougall, United States Navy, continued as superintendent until October 5, 1923, when he was relieved by Capt. Edwin T. Pollock, United States Navy. The Naval Observatory has continued to supply the Navy, the merchant marine, and the country with the essential astronomical data and time service required by navigators, astronomers, and scientists in general. The department of material has continued the work of furnishing the Navy with navigational instruments and the nautical instrument repair shop has continued to demonstrate its value to the service as viewed from the standpoint of efficiency and economy, both in time and money. The supply department is still shorthanded as to personnel and is therefore unable to comply with the requirements of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in reference to prompt rendition of returns. The use of time signals for scientific purposes has continued to increase during the year. They are used by nearly all the observatories in the United States. Because of the reradiation of Naval Observatory time signals by private broadcasting stations, the number of the people who have become familiar with the time-signal code has been greatly added to. The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey office has frequently expressed its satisfaction with the accuracy and reliability of these signals which were used in their longitude determinations. Over 2,300 visitors, including schools, were given an opportunity to view the heavens through the observatory telescopes. The final report of the departmental reorganization board, which considered the reassignment of certain institutions, has been published. The brief representations by the Secretary of the Navy and the president of the general board, and also the more lengthy and detailed representations by the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory showing the activities of that institution and their primary importance to the Navy, were such that the transfer of the Naval Observatory was apparently not even considered seriously. It is hoped that this will be the end of the attempts which have been made at frequent intervals for over 50 years to take the Naval Observatory away from the Navy Department. |