...any. In case of th6 death of the nephew without leaving a child or children, the whole property was 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...

...any. In case of the death of the nephew without leaving a child or children, the whole property was 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...

...offspring of lofty sentiments, not of disordered imaginations. James Smithson limited his estate over 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...

...nephew, the illegitimate son of his own illegitimate half-brother — 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...

...for reasons unknown left the whole of his property, amounting to over half a million of dollars, " to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, au establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...

...sense. The Smithsonian Institution owes its existence to a bequest of James Smithson, an Englishman, "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...

...institutions. James Smithson, an English scientist, who died at Genoa in 1829, left by will a 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...

...sense. The Smithsonian Institution owes its existence to a bequest of James Smithson, an Englishman, "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. Its object is stated in the following clause of his 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...

...a million dollars. By his will the estate passed to a relative for life, and afterward descended " 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...