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See also:SMITHSON, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1765-1829) , See also:British chemist and mineralogist and founder of the Smithsonian Institution at See also:Washington, a natural son of See also:Hugh Smithson, 1st See also:duke of See also:Northumberland, by Mrs See also:Elizabeth See also:Keate Macie, a granddaughter of See also:Sir See also:George See also:Hungerford of Studley, was See also:born in See also:France in 1765. He was educated at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he graduated in 1786, and was known in See also:early See also:life as James See also:Lewis (or See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis) Macie. He took the name of James Smithson about the See also:year 1800. His See also:attention was given to See also:chemistry and See also:mineralogy, and he published analyses of calamines and other papers in the See also:Annals of , See also:Philosophy and Phil: Trans. The See also:mineral name
smithsonite " was originally given in his See also:honour by See also:Beudant to See also:zinc carbonate, but having also been applied to the silicate, the name is now rarely used. In 1784 he accompanied Faujas St Fond in his See also:journey to the Western Isles, and in the See also:English See also:translation of the Travels in See also:England, See also:Scotland and the See also:Hebrides (1799) Smithson is spoken of as " M. de Mecies of See also:London." He was elected F.R.S. in 1787. He died at See also:Genoa on the 27th of See also:June 1829. By his will he bequeathed upwards of £1oe,eoo to the See also:United States of See also:America to 'found the Smithsonian Institution. The institution (see below) was founded by See also:act of See also:Congress on the loth of See also:August 1846. "
See " James Smithson and his See also:Bequest (with portraits), by W. J. Rhees, and " The Scientific Writings of James Smithson," edited by W. J. Rhees, Smithsonian Misc. See also:Coll., vol. xxi. (1879 188o).
End of Article: SMITHSON, JAMES (1765-1829)
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