...English scientist and prominent member of the Royal Society of London, who in 1829 left his entire estate to the United States of America "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...English scientist and prominent member of the Royal Society of London, who in 1829 left his entire estate to the United States of America "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...his nephew die without leaving any children, he would then bequeath the whole of his estate : "... to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...his nephew die without leaving any children, he would then bequeath the whole of his estate : "... to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase end diffusion of knowledge among...

...stipulation that if this relative should die without issue, then the whole amount of his property was to go "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...interest. In 1829, an unknown British chemist named James Smithson bequeathed his inherited fortune "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...1846 (9 Stat. 102) to administer the trust of John Smlthson, who bequeathed the bulk of his estate "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the Increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...perpetual maintenance mil support of the institution. All moneys and stocks received of the bequest James Smithson, Esquire, of London, in the Kingdom...United States of America, to found at Washington, under ihe name of the " Smithsonian Institution," an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...

...the case of the death of my said nephew without leaving a child ... I then bequeath the whole of my property ... to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...Sraitbson, Esquire, of London, in the Kingdom of Great Britain, having by his last will and testament giren the whole of his property to the United States of America, to found it Washington, tinder the name of the " Smithsonian Institution," an establishment for the increase...