Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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These experiments have been greatly facilitated by a grant from the Hodgkins Fund of the Smithsonian Institute...
...Committee of Award for 1898 consists of the following members: Professor H. T. Peck Columbia College (chairman); Professor Daniel G. Brinton, University of Pennsylvania; and W. J. McGee, Esq., Smithsonian Institution. Washington...
When he returned he had the skins and skeletons of thirty-five gorillas, but for years the full value of this collection was not recognized. Neither the Smithsonian Institute nor Harvard cared for them...
...late Thomas Hodgkins bequeathed his entire estate, valued at $500,000, to the regents of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington...
...government issue of $20,000,000 worth of bonds, bearing 5 per cent; these to be turned over to the new institution, and the $1,000,000 thus provided yearly to be a fund for getting the best professors in the land. In this way the museums, the Smithsonian Institute, and other national institutions can be brought in close relations with the proposed university...