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Centennial History of the City of Washington, D. C.: With Full Outline of ... - Page 608
edited by - 1892 - 754 pages
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The Half Century: Or, A History of the Changes that Have Taken Place, and ...

Emerson Davis - History - 1851 - 482 pages
...SMITHSON, of London, who died about 1827, at Genoa, had bequeathed the reversion of his whole estate to the United States of America, to " found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."...
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The Young Man's Gift of Literature, Science, and Morality

Cotesworth Pinckney - Conduct of life - 1851 - 212 pages
...slight towards him on' their part, he altered his will, and left his property to the government of 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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Algemeen verslag van de werksaamheden en notulen der vergaderingen

Instituut van ingenieurs, The Hague - 1852 - 568 pages
...serve as a guide in adopling a Plan of Organization. 1. 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 inerease and diffusion of knowledge among...
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Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher, Volumes 1-2

Education - 1852 - 844 pages
...leaving a child or children, * * * I bequeath the whole of my property (subject to an annuity of £100,) 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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The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, Volumes 7-8

Education - 1854 - 406 pages
...whole of my property (subject to an annuity of 100 pounds to John Fitall, and for the security and payment of which, I mean stock to remain in this country,)...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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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 566 pages
...the whole of my property, subject to the annuity of £ 100 to John Fitall, and for the security and payment of which I mean stock to remain in this country,...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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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 36

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1854 - 480 pages
...whole of my property (subject to an annuity of 100 pounds to John Fitall. and for the security and payment of which, I mean stock to remain in this country)...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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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 57

Unitarianism - 1854 - 482 pages
...Smithson's bounty. That clause is as follows : " In case, &c I then bequeathe 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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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 705

United States - 1854 - 656 pages
...serte as a guide in adopting a plan of organization. 1. 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 dimisión of knowledge among...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1854 - 284 pages
...serve as a guide in adopting a plan of organization. L 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...
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