Report of the Organization Committee of the Smithsonian Institution: With the Resolutions Accompanying the Same, and Adopted by the Board of Regents; Also, the Will of the Testator, the Act Accepting the Bequest, and the Act Organizing the InstitutionPrinted at the office of Blair & Rives, 1847 - 32 pages |
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accruing interest aforesaid ALPHEUS FELCH appointed bequeath bequest Board of Regents building Chancellor and Secretary charter chemist child or children city of Washington collections Committee on Organization committee recommend committee think connexion copy Court of Chancery curious research deem best suited desirable diffusion of knowledge establish the Smithsonian Executive Committee foreign and curious found at Washington funds further enacted gallery of art gradual Henry James Hungerford hereafter hundred thousand volumes increase and diffusion Insti Institution permit invited to furnish James Smithson John Fitall JOSEPH G laboratory lecture rooms legacy Librarian mittee museum musical composition natural history original research Patent Office payment PENNYBACKER plan of organization President procure proper purpose receive Report Resolved ROBERT DALE OWEN scientific selected Smithsonian Institution submitted suitable sums of money talent testator thereof tion Transactions Treasury United United States Treasury valuable works pertaining WILLIAM W
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Page 26 - I mean stock to remain in this country) 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 men.
Page 31 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging, or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington, in whosesoever custody the same may be, shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by the Board of Regents to receive them, and shall be arranged in such order, and so classed,...
Page 23 - Columbia, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, annually appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed, under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Page 28 - Institution, to be composed of the Vice-President, the Chief Justice of the United States, and the governor of the District of Columbia, three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives; together with six other persons other than members of...
Page 29 - ... office for two years, two for four years and two for six years.
Page 30 - ... of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...
Page 28 - Regents by the name of the Regents of the "Smithsonian Institution," to be composed of the Vice President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the United States, and...
Page 22 - I hereby authorize you to draw on the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, and of the Navy of the United States, according as you may find your draughts will be most negotiable...
Page 31 - Smithsonian fund, not herein appropriated, or not required for the purposes herein provided, the said managers are hereby authorized to make such disposal as they shall deem best suited for the promotion of the purpose of the testator, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 8 - ... including the carriage porch, 153 feet. The height of the principal tower is 145 feet, and that of the main building, to the summit of the battlement, 58 feet. The design includes all the accommodations demanded by the charter, to wit: A museum, 200 feet by 50; a library, 90 feet by 50; a gallery of art, in the form of a T...