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...many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution...
Dutch New Guinea. Professor Matthew W. Stirling of Berkeley, Calif., and comrades docked last week in Boston after a 15-month pilgrimage to the heart of Dutch New Guinea (between Australia and the Equator). Under Smithsonian auspices, and with the aid of admiring Dutch officers, they had flown a Liberty-motored seaplane to the upper reaches of the Mamberamo River, alighted and made friends with a myth. The latter was a most genteel, non-cannibalistic, Stone-age race of pygmies whose existence in the mountain fastnesses had been rumored but never proved. After some flitting through the undergrowth and bird...
...history of science, invention and industry, there must be ample room for a fund to keep men's understanding abreast of men's undertakings.* James Smithson signed his whole estate over to the U. S. Government "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
...Philadelphia, where they were recoined into $508,318.46. Five U. S. Congresses tried to define "knowledge" and how best to "increase" and "diffuse" it. John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush were among those who contributed the basic ideas of a charter that was finally adopted (1846), making the Smithsonian Institution a private affair under the guardianship of the Federal Government. The President, Vice President, Chief Justice and members of the Cabinet were made the Smithsonian "establishment." Three Senators, three Representatives and six citizens at large constituted, with the Vice President and Chief Justice, a board of regents...
...Smithsonian thus pursued wide activities without spending more than its income. When convenient, it turned over its ever multiplying departments to 'the Government for support, continuing only to supervise. Thus arose the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the U. S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, the National Gallery...