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I.—THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. IN 1826, Mr. James Smithson, F.R.S., an English gentleman (a natural son of the first Duke of Northumberland), in a fit of pique at the action of the Committee of the Royal Society, who had declined to accept a scientific paper he had submitted, bequeathed to the United States of America a large sum of money, (£105,000), “to found at Washington under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”
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Hansard Annals, vol. xviii. p. 138.
Recommended in the Century Magazine for September 1838, as well as "Washburn Publications," vol. ii. p. 113.
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KAY, J. Two American Institutions. Nature 40, 346–348 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040346a0
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