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    1. SI History Chronology

      Smithson's First Scientific Paper Read

      • Date: July 7, 1791

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      Smithson Held as a Prisoner of War

      • Date: September 18, 1808

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      Accepting Smithson's Gift

      • Date: February 7, 2017
      • Description: Smithson's Bequest Sparks Political DebatesWhether or not to accept the Smithson bequest was a matter of controversy among the ranks of those governing the new nation. States' rights advocates, nationalists, federalists, anglophobes, xenophobes, and others disagreed over the possible repercussions of accepting such a gift.President Andrew Jackson asserted his belief that the

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      Letter From James Smithson to Sir Joseph Banks, from Hamburg, September 18, 1808, as a Prisoner of War

      • Date: 1943

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      The Smithsonian Institution and the American Philosophical Society

      • Date: October 1957
      • Creator: Carmichael, Leonard 1898-1973
      • Creator: Carmichael, Leonard 1898-1973

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      Mr. Smithson's Bones: A Mystery at the Smithsonian 

      • Date: March 9, 2022
      • Description: Foreign Service Officer Scruggs is still at SI and decides to find out who is buried in Smithson’s tomb.  

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      James Smithson Bicentennial Procession: View with Smithsonian Castle in the Background

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      • Smithson's First Scientific Paper

        Smithson's First Scientific Paper

        • Date: July 7, 1791
        • Creator: Royal Society of London
        • Creator: Royal Society of London

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        Haupt and Sackler Receive Order of Smithson

        • Date: September 24, 1983

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        James Smithson Bicentennial Procession: View with East Wing of Smithsonian Castle in Background

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          Smithson to Smithsonian

          • Date: February 7, 2017
          • Description: The Smithsonian Institution is celebrating 175 years of the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Join us in exploring our history.

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          Art. I. - 1. The Last Will and Testament of James Smithson, London. 2. The Letters of John Q. Adams, F. Wayland, Thomas Cooper, Richard Rush, S. Chapin, to John Forsyth, Secretary of State on the subject of the trust assumed by the United States, under the will of James Smithson. 3. The Congressional Proceedings and Documents on the same subject

          • Date: July 1842

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