...serve 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 diffusion of knowledge among...

...bequeathed by James Smitbson, an English bachelor, who died at Genoa in 1826, bequeathing his whole fortune "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...

...7. " 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...

...half 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...

...President of the US v. Drummond (May, 1838) (cit. 7 HL 141, 155). Lord Langdale, ME, 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 valid...

...James Smithson, an English scientist, who, in his will of October 23, 182G, left all 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...

...Jamee Smithson, an English scientist, who, in his will of October 23, 1826, left all 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...

...James Smithson, an English scientist, who, in his will of October 23, 1826, left all 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...

...estate. In case of Hungerford's dying without children he says: "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...

...Smithson, bequeathed by his will 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...