Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...Professor Young of Princeton College, Professor Peirce of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, J. E. Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey office, President Garland of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., President Barnard of Columbia College, Professor Henry of Smithsonian Institute, and other scientific scholars have signed a memorial to Congress asking that the naval observatory at Washington be removed to a healthier and better situation than it has now, and that, so far as possible, it be made fireproof. - Transcript...