 | 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... | |
 | Mary Clemmer - Bookbinding - 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... | |
 | 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 - 1050 pages
...death of the child or children he may Itave had, under the age of twenty-one years, or intestate, / then bequeath the whole of my property (subject to...of America, to found, at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, under the name of the " Smithsonian Institution," an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among... | |
 | George N Lamphere - Executive departments - 1880 - 320 pages
...Board of Regents December 8, 1847.) Bv PROF. JOSEPH HENRY. Will of Smithson. The property is 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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I mean stock to remain in this country) 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 men. 
