 States ** to found, at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the , increase and diffusion of knowledge I among men.  Guide to Washington - Page 7by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company - 1892 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | De Benneville Randolph Keim - Washington (D.C.) - 1874 - 290 pages
...Royal Society of London, but owing to 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... | |
 | De Benneville Randolph Keim - Washington (D.C.) - 1886 - 292 pages
...life t« science, and died at Genoa, in 1828 leaving his money to his nephew Henry James Hungerford, for life, after which it was to go to the United States ** to found, at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the , increase and diffusion of knowledge I among... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1885 - 498 pages
...(worth £120,000) to his nephew, with the condition that if the latter died without issue the property was to go to the United States to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 774 pages
...left his whole property, amounting to ^"12o,ooo, to his nephew, and in case of his death without heirs it was to go to the United States to found at Washington the Smithsonian Institution. In 1835 the nephew died and the property fell to this country. P. 299.... | |
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