Identifier: americapicturesq01cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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)rinting is done, andthe Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing,Avhere all the Government money issues and revenuestamps are made, are large and imjiortant buildings,though not specitically attractive in architecture. THE s:\IITnS()XIAN IX.STITUTrON.Upon the i\Iall stands the Smithsonian Institution,of world-wide renown, one of the most interesting Ilu tl.K Conove^sional Xibraiv, Tllllasb*incitou, S>. (I.
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 25 public structures in Wasliington, its turrets andtowers rising above the trees. The origin of thisfamous scientific establishment was the bequest of anEnglishman, James Smithson, a natural son of HughSmithson, Duke of Northumberland, born in 1765.He was known as Louis Macie at Oxford, graduatingimder that name; early developed scientific tastes;was a Fellow of the Royal Society, the friend andassociate of many of the most learned men of histime, and lived usually in Paris, where in the latterpart of the last century he took the family name ofhis father. He died in Italy in 1829. In Washing-tons Farewell Address, issued in 1796, there occursthe phrase, An institution for the increase and dif-fusion of knowledge, and it was well known that theFather of his Country cherished a project for anational institution of learning in the new FederalCity. This was evidently communicated to Smith-son by one of his intimates in Paris, Joel Barlow, anoted American, who

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