 | Charles Burr Todd - 1889 - 464 էջ
...an English scientist named James Smithson, died in Genoa, Italy, and bequeathed 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... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1890 - 352 էջ
...James Smithson, an English scientist, who, in his will of October 23, 1826, left all 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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1890 - 958 էջ
...Jamee Smithson, an English scientist, who, in his will of October 23, 1826, left all 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... | |
 | 1890 - 670 էջ
...estate. In case of Hungerford's dying without children he says: "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... | |
 | 1891 - 654 էջ
...Smithson, bequeathed by his will the whole of his property, something over half a million dollars, "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... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1891 - 766 էջ
...might regard as most conducive to that end, " was held to be a valid charitable bequest. So a gift to the United States of America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, " an establishment for the increase of knowledge among men," referred... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1892 - 1128 էջ
...Smithson, who had died in Genoa, six years earlier, had bequeathed the reversion of his whole 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... | |
 | 1892 - 780 էջ
...human knowledge. In his will, three years before, he had written, " 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... | |
 | George G. Evans - 1892 - 296 էջ
...Englishman, James Smithson, who died in Genoa, Italy, in 1829, and who 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... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - 1893 - 314 էջ
...money, yielding $5o8,318.46. The language of this bequest was : 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. 
