...Vegetable 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...

...Vegetable 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...

...expressed should not have been generally understood, or that the words " 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 inerease and diffusion of knowledge among...

...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...

...objects of art. Title 73. PREAMBLE. James Smithson, esquire, of London, in the kingdom nt Smithson. his property to the United States of America, to found, at Washington, \Vill of James Great Britain, having by his last will and testament given the whole ot oftuelnstitution....

...the provisions of the will 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...

...trust is the result of a bequest by James Smithson, an English gentleman, who died in 1829. He left 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 cf knowledge among men."...

...Smithson, esquire, of London, in 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...

...Smithson, esquire, of Londjn, in the kingdom of Great Britain, by his last will and testament did give the whole of his property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under ihf name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...

...intestate, 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...