Smithson Graduates from Pembroke College
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PrintJames Smithson graduates from Pembroke College, Oxford University, with the degree of Master of Arts. He excelled at chemistry and mineralogy. His name has not yet been changed from James Lewis Macie. He continues to use Macie until about 1800.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
May 26, 1786