| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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