| 1898 - 1094 páginas
...left his property to his nephew with the provision that, in case he died without heirs, it should 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... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1898 - 346 páginas
...1829 James Smithson bequeathed 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... | |
| 1898 - 494 páginas
...left his property to his nephew with the provision that, in case he died without heirs, it should 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... | |
| 1899 - 880 páginas
...estate be disposed of in accordance with the following clause : « 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 Gore - 1899 - 604 páginas
...ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil." " 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... | |
| 1900 - 226 páginas
...Institution. . $508,318.46. 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... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler - 1900 - 538 páginas
...death of my said nephew without leaving a child * * * 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... | |
| Charles Melville Pepper - 1900 - 480 páginas
...Everybody who is interested knows that James Smithson, an Englishman, bequeathed his fortune of $500,000 " 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... | |
| Joel Cook - 1900 - 550 páginas
...which was contained in the following clause of Smithson's will: "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... | |
| 1901 - 1544 páginas
...v. Drummond (at the Rolls. 12 May 1838), may be applicable, where Lord Langdale decided, that 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," was a... | |
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