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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Court ... - Page 209
by John Hoff Stewart - 1881
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Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman ...

Mary Clemmer - Washington (D.C.) - 1873 - 640 pages
...Specimens — International Exchanges. AN Englishman, of the name of James Smithson, gave all his 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...
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Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman ...

Mary Clemmer - Washington (D.C.) - 1873 - 634 pages
...Specimens — International Exchanges. AN Englishman, of the name of James Smithson, gave all his property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, " a,n establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
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Keim's Illustrated Hand-book, Washington and Its Environs: A Descriptive and ...

De Benneville Randolph Keim - Washington (D.C.) - 1874 - 290 pages
...a disagreement vested it in his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, for life, after which it 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...
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The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 210 pages
...of James Smithson. Three years before his death Mr. Smithson bequeathed "the whole of his 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...
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Library Journal, Volume 39, Issue 2

Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, Karl Brown, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1914 - 660 pages
...result of a bequest by James Smithson, an English gentleman, who died in 1829. He left his 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 cf knowledge among men."...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 18

1880 - 874 pages
...the kingdom of Great Britain, having by his last will and testament given the whole of his property to the United States of America, to found, at Washington,...increase and diffusion of knowledge among men; and the United States having, by an act of Congress, received said property and accepted said trust; therefore,...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 17

Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1880 - 1054 pages
...in tho Kingdom of Great Britain, by his last will and testament did give the whole of his property to the United States of America, to found, at Washington,...increase and diffusion of knowledge among men ; and whereas tho creation of a university, academy, or college, is liable to constitutional difficulties,...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 17

Science - 1880 - 1064 pages
...Great Britain, by his last will and testament did give the whole of his property to the United Slates of America, to found, at Washington, under the name...increase and diffusion of knowledge among men ; and whereas the creation of a university, academy, or college, is iitibje to constitutional difficulties,...
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A Memorial of Joseph Henry

Smithsonian Institution - 1880 - 548 pages
...case of the death of the nephew without leaving a child or children, the whole property was bequeathed "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...
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James Smithson and His Bequest

William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 292 pages
...he then says: * Gentleman•s Magazine, 1830, vol. c., p. 275. " I 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...
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