Results for "Science -- History"
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An act to authorize and enable the President to assert and prosecute with effect, the claim of the United States to the legacy bequeathed to them by James Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men
- Date: 1856 07/01/1836
- Creator: 24th Congress, Sess. 1, 1836
- Creator: 24th Congress, Sess. 1, 1836
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act to repeal a part of the sixth section of the act, entitled "An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes," passed July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight
- Date: 1856 09/11/1841
- Creator: 27th Congress, Sess. 1, 1841
- Creator: 27th Congress, Sess. 1, 1841
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to money and finance, as title 31, United States Code, "Money and Finance"
- Date: 1984 09/13/1982
- Creator: 97th Congress, Sess. 2, 1982
- Creator: 97th Congress, Sess. 2, 1982
- Smithsonian Legal Document
House of Representatives, Rep. No. 181, Report from the Select Committee on the Message of the President, accompanying bill H.R. 187
- Date: 1977 01/19/1836
- Creator: 24th Congress, Sess. 1
- Creator: 24th Congress, Sess. 1
- Smithsonian Legal Document
House of Representatives Rep. No. 587
- Date: 1977 04/12/1842
- Creator: 27th Congress, Sess. 2
- Creator: 27th Congress, Sess. 2
Draft of the Will of James Smithson
- Date: 1826 10/23/1826
- Creator: Smithson, James 1765-1829
- Creator: Smithson, James 1765-1829
- Online Publications
A Bill to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men
- Date: 02/28/1846
- Creator: 29th Congress, Sess 1, 1846, House of Representatives
- Creator: 29th Congress, Sess 1, 1846, House of Representatives
- SI History Bibliography
The Impossible Museum: The Smithsonian Celebrates 150 Years
- Date: July/August 1996
- Creator: Spiess, Philip D., II
- Creator: Spiess, Philip D., II
- Smithsonian Legal Document
House of Representatives, Doc. No. 10, Reports from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury on the Smithsonian Bequest
- Date: 1977 12/10/1838
- Creator: 25th Congress, Sess. 3
- Creator: 25th Congress, Sess. 3
- SI History Bibliography
Cold-Shower Time at the Smithsonian
- Date: September 1977
- Creator: Ross, Irwin
- Creator: Ross, Irwin
- SI History Bibliography
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
- Date: 1997
- Creator: Nagel, Paul C
- Creator: Nagel, Paul C
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To amend section 5590 of the Revised Statutes to provide for adjusting the rate of interest paid on funds of the Smithsonian Institution deposited with the Treasury of the United States as a permanent loan
- Date: 1984 06/22/1982
- Creator: 97th Congress, Sess. 2, 1982
- Creator: 97th Congress, Sess. 2, 1982
