| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 էջ
...and what is learned of one will be known of the other ... 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... | |
| Peter Woodhead, Geoffrey Stansfield - 1994 - 244 էջ
...be traced to the bequest of James Smithson (1765-1829), a son of the first Duke of Northumberland: '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... | |
| Edward Porter Alexander - 1995 - 444 էջ
...and his bequest of 105 bags of gold sovereigns worth $508,318.46, delivered in 1835, had been made "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... | |
| Edward Porter Alexander - 1996 - 328 էջ
...an English duke and keen student of chemistry and mineralogy, at his death left a contingent bequest 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... | |
| James Orville Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman - 1997 - 792 էջ
...however, in the case that his nephew dies without heirs, the will stipulates that the money will 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... | |
| 298 էջ
...British chemist, who had no connection with the United States, left his entire estate of some $508,000 "to the United States of America to found at Washington under the name of The Smithsonian Institution an establishment for increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."... | |
| Ioan James - 2004 - 420 էջ
...sixty, Smithson left a life interest in his considerable fortune to a nephew, after which it should pass 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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