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Smithsonian and mineralogist
* Beginning of the year – James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution ( d. 1829 )
* June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist and chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution ( b. 1764 )
* James Smithson, mineralogist, benefactor of the Smithsonian Institution
* James Smithson ( 1764 – 27 June 1829 ) – British mineralogist and chemist whose bequest helped found the U. S. national museum, the Smithsonian Institution.
The distinct mineral smithsonite was named in 1832 by François Sulpice Beudant in honor of English chemist and mineralogist, James Smithson ( c. 1765-1829 ), whose bequest established the Smithsonian Institution and who first identified the mineral in 1802.

Smithsonian and George
Nez Perce people | Nez Perce medicine man, performing his mysteries over a dying man, 1832 by George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Weems is known for having invented the apocryphal " cherry tree " anecdote about George Washington and " Marion's life received similar embellishment ", as Amy Crawford wrote in Smithsonian Magazine in 2007.
* Punke, Michael, " Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West ", Smithsonian Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-089782-6
Dr. George S. Metcalf, archeologist, historian, long-time employee of the Smithsonian Institution
The complex was surveyed and drawn by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis, whose large project on numerous prehistoric mounds was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848 as Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.
George Catlin ( 1796 – 1872 ); Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
* Douglas H. Ubelaker ( Smithsonian Institution, George Washington University )
Groundbreaking took place on June 21, 1983 with participation by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, then Vice President George H. W. Bush and Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley.
The collection, which became part of the Smithsonian in June 1990, was assembled by George Gustav Heye ( 1874 – 1957 ) during a 54-year period, beginning in 1903.
Image: Ault-Bright Light at Russell's Corners 1946. jpg | George Ault, Bright Light at Russell's Corners, 1946, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Replicas of the " Model K " now reside in the Smithsonian Institution, the William Howard Doane Library at Denison University and the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana where the George R. Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Awards are granted.
The Oak Ridge Observatory, also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts, and was formerly operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a facility of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory ( SAO ).
Type material is mainly found in the collections of Alexander Abercrombie ( India ), Robert Dukinfield Darbishire, Prof. Alfred Cort Haddon ( Torres Straits ), Reverend James Hadfield ( Lifu, Loyalty Islands ), Lewis John Shackleford ( especially Marginella ), George Cooper Spence ( especially African land snails and Urocoptis and many specimens from Matthew William Kemble Connolly and Hugh Berthon Preston ), Frederick W. Townsend ( Persian Gulf ), syntype material from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition ( 1902 – 1904 ) and that received from the Smithsonian Institution in 1973 in exchange.
* Gurney, George, Sculpture and the Federal Triangle, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C. 1985
* George Suckley Papers, 1849-1861 from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
* Gurney, George, Sculpture and the Federal Triangle, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C. 1985 ISBN 0-87474-492-X
* Smithsonian West Point: George Squier
He also researched authentic costumes, including a pair of George Washington ’ s breeches borrowed from the Smithsonian Institution, and he depicted the furniture and artifacts used by the delegates.
* Gurney, George, Sculpture and the Federal Triangle, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C. 1985
* Christo and George Gurney of the Smithsonian American Art Museum talk about the Running Fence archive
Architect George Oakley Totten, Jr. bought the exterior stone ( except the main doorway, which reportedly went to the Smithsonian ) and much of the interior woodwork.
Founded in October 1971 as a collaboration between Tel-Aviv University and the Smithsonian Institution, and named after the late Dr. George S. Wise, the first President of the Tel-Aviv University.
Davis ' recording of his version of the song appears on the albums George Davis: When Kentucky Had No Union Men and Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian.

Smithsonian and is
It is not the same dress as the one on her manikin in the Smithsonian.
She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.
Because of its pioneering efforts, Acadia is a laureate of Washington ’ s Smithsonian Institution and a part of the permanent research collection of the National Museum of American History.
It is the only Canadian university selected for inclusion in the Education and Academia category of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award.
* 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $ 500, 000.
Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
The 1967 survey, published by The Smithsonian is used as the most authoritative baseline for more recent research.
The outfit, designed by Bob Mackie, is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
The original daguerreotype is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program cites the Indonesian name, Krakatau, as the correct name, but says that Krakatoa is often employed.
Interest in letterboxing in the U. S. is generally considered to have started with a feature article in the Smithsonian Magazine in April 1998.
* Introduction to Flight, John D. Anderson, Jr., McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-299071-6 – The author is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.
The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
* 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
This device is now in the " Smithsonian Chips " collection of the American Museum of History ( see figure ).
World famous Barro Colorado Island, which was established for scientific study when the lake was formed and is today operated by the Smithsonian Institution, is the largest island on Gatun Lake.
The original Morse telegraph, submitted with his patent application, is part of the collections of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.
After decommissioning and delivery, the spacecraft is displayed in Virginia at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
This flag, with fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, came to be known as the Star Spangled Banner Flag and is today on display in the National Museum of American History, a treasure of the Smithsonian Institution.
One of his washtub basses is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
It is housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C..
It is now kept at Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
Woolworth Company | Woolworth's where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History
* December 6 – The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

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