Show i Founder of Smithsonian Institution Jams Jam Jams Smithson founder of ot the Smithsonian institution in Washing Washing- ton was the illegitimate son of a aduke aduke aduke duke and a woman who was the de descendant descendant de- de descendant of ot kings He died In hi Genoa Genoa he he never had nad a 3 home home with with without out a single kinsman at his death death- bed was associated with some som of the most noted scientists of ot his hiss time lime ICe Ifa passed a large part of ot his life lite on the continent He was buried burled in Genoa but in i 1004 his body was removed to the United States and interred in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Smithson never was in America and it is not known what induced him to give his fortune to this country e ex except except ex- ex that a sense sens of or wron wrong in the of ot his birth alienated him from his native land On his mothers mother's side Smithson was related to Lady Jane Eane Grey Urey Henry VII Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth Whether the Filipino i is ca- ca p ble of self Eel government will depend wholly upon the extent I of ot his oil fields Baltimore fe Baltimore Sun |