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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



After ten years of debate in congress, turning partly on the ques- 

 tion whether the government ought to accept such a bequest at all 

 nnd put itself in the unprecedented position of the guardian of a 

 ward, congress accepted the trust and created by enactment an 'estab- 



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lishment' called by the name of the Smithsonian Institution, consisting 

 cf the President of the United States, the Vice-President, the Chief 

 Justice of the United States, and the members of the President's 

 Cabinet. It has also a secretary, with varied functions, among others 

 that of being the keeper of the museum. 



