J.Q. Adams Issues Report on Smithson Bequest

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Summary

Former President John Quincy Adams, now in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, issues a report on the James Smithson bequest, urging that the United States accept it.

Subject

  • Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848
  • Smithson, James 1765-1829
  • United States President
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897., p. 26

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

January 19, 1836

Topic

  • Smithson Bequest
  • SI, Early History

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