Smithson Receives Bequest from D. Percy
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James Smithson, then known as James Lewis Macie, receives a bequest from his half-sister, Dorothy Percy, the legitimate daughter of his late father, Hugh Smithson, the Duke of Northumberland.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897, p. 12.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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