J.Q. Adams Issues Report on Smithson Bequest
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PrintFormer 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.
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. 26
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 19, 1836