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Smithsonian Could Expand Diffusion of Knowledge Aim
James Smithson the English chemist left a $541000 bequest to the United States to found the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Congress created the establishment in 1846 under a regents board. though privately funded, the Smithsonian now faces funding gaps and plans a nationwide fundraising drive of at least $10 million to sustain research and publication.
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John Dickinson Shermanne
Europe
James Smithson
Pembroke College, Oxford
Royal Society
England
San Benigno
United States of America
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Hugh Smithson
Percy
Duke of Northumberland
Smithson
United States
America
Congress
Republics
Alexander Graham Bell
Percys
Doctor Bell
Genoa
Tenth Street
Supreme Court
Senate
House of Representatives
Chan
Cellor
Smithsonian
Board of
Regents
Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Taft
Lodge
Massachusetts
McCormick
Illinois
Stanley
Kentucky
Smoot
Utah
Pepper
Pennsylvania
Ferris
Michigan
Johnson
Moore
Virginia
Newton
Minnesota
House
Dwight W. Morrow
J.P. Morgan & Co
Board of Regents
Henry White
Frederic A. Delano
Washington City
Charles F. Choate, Jr
Boston
Robert 3. Brookings
St. Louis
Orwin B. Laughlin
Pittsburgh
Joseph Henry
Spencer F. Baird
Samuel W P. Langley
Charles D. Walcott
United States Reclamation Service
Carnegie Institute
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
National Research Council
American Association For the Advancement of Science
National Conference On Outdoor Recreation
Guardian
National Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery
Freer Gallery of Art
Charles Lang Freer
Bureau of American Ethnology
Hawaii
Astrophysical Observatory
California
Arizona
Chile
Charles G. Abbot
Asia
Africa
National Geographical Society
International Exchange Service
London
National Zoological Park
Rock Creek Valley
Carnegie Institution
Hierein
Dwight P