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" ... knowledge among men, the Smithsonian Institution should be a scientific and literary institution, formed upon a model the best calculated to make those means the most effectual to that end. 4. Resolved, That to apply said trust fund to the erection... "
Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ... - Page 286
by United States National Museum - 1892
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress. Repr. . 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1838 - 528 pages
...apply said trust fund to the erection and support of an observatory, would not be to fulfil, bonafide, the intention of the testator; nor would it comport...with the dignity of the United States to owe such an esiablishment to foreign eleemosynary means. Mr. Robbins, from the committee appointed on the part...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 17

Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1879 - 1040 pages
...That to apply said trust fund to the erection and support of &n observatory, would not be to fulfil bona fide the intention of the testator, nor would...such an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means. Mr. BOBBINS, from the committee appointed on the part of the Senate, on the Smithsonian bequest, reported...
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James Smithson and His Bequest

William Jones Rhees - 1880 - 292 pages
...stated that to apply the fund to the erection and support of an observatory " would not be to fulfil bona fide the intention of the testator, nor would...such an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means." The plan of Mr. Robbins was not received with sufficient favor in the Senate to secure its passage,...
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James Smithson and His Bequest

William Jones Rhees - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 282 pages
...stated that to apply the fund to the erection and support of an observatory " would not be to fulfil bona fide the intention of the testator, nor would...such an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means." The plan of Mr. Bobbins was not received with sufficient favor in the Senate to secure its passage,...
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James Smithson and His Bequest

William Jones Rhees - Charities - 1880 - 290 pages
...that to apply the fund to the erection and support of an observatory "would not be to fulfil bonafide the intention of the testator, nor would it comport...such an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means." The plan of Mr. Robbius was not received with sufficient favor in the Senate to secure its passage,...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 17

1880 - 1050 pages
...That to apply said trust fund to the erection and support of in observatory, would not bo to fulfil bona fide the intention of the testator, nor would...comport with the dignity of the United States to owe inch an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means. Mr. KOBBINS, from the committee appointed on the...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 17

Smithsonian Institution - Science - 1880 - 1054 pages
...erection and support of an observatory, would not be to fulfil bana fide the intention of the testatibr, nor would it comport with the dignity of the United States to owe iuch an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means. Mr. KOBBINS, from the committee appointed on the...
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 21

1881 - 856 pages
...stated that to apply the fund to the erection and support of an observatory " would not be to fulfil bona fide the intention of the testator, nor would...such an establishment to foreign eleemosynary means." The plan of Mr. Eobbins was not received with sufficient favor in the Senate to secure its passage,...
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ...

United States National Museum - 1892 - 1128 pages
...those means the most effectual to that end. 4. Resolved, That to apply said trust fund to the erection and support of an observatory would not be to fulfill...without any decision having been reached. Senator Bobbins retired from public life at this time, and the university idea was not subsequently brought...
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Congressional Serial Set

United States - 1892 - 1146 pages
...to apply said trust fund to the erection and support of an observatory would not be to fulfill boua fide the intention of the testator, nor would it comport...without any decision having been reached. Senator Bobbins retired from public life at this time, and the university idea was not subsequently brought...
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