4 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



were written on the leaves bound up in Mr. Davies Gilbert's pocket- 

 books, and should like copies of any information which has been pub- 

 lished before. 



You are at liberty to destroy the extracts or publish them, as you 

 think best towards Smithson's memory. 



Yours, truly, 



John D. Enys. 



Note under the ice^lcfrom June 8-14, 1789. In bound-up poclet-hook of 

 Davies Gilbert, F. B. S., M. T., &c. 



<' Macie, afterwards Smithson, was a Gent. Com. when I entered at 

 Pembroke College. 



" His mother's husbaud was a country gentleman, to whose estates he 

 has succeeded ; but the first Duke of Northumberland was allowed on 

 all hands to be his father. At the time of his matriculation I have 

 heard that a blank was left for his surnames, Mr. Macie having at that 

 period instituted suit to annul his marriage, which the wife defended. 

 The Dutchess of N. then died, when Mrs. Macie wished the marriage 

 dissolved, with the hope of marrying the Duke of N., but this the hus- 

 band from spite opposed, and I have heard that a suit was actually in- 

 stituted in which the parties had changed sides. Pending these mat- 

 ters Mr. Macie died, and my friend succeeded to his estate. The Duke 

 of Northumberland did not marry the mother, nor, I believe, did he 

 notice Macie m his will, certainly not beyond a small legacy. Yet on 

 that event Macie had the bad taste (not to use a stronger expression) to 

 obtain the King's authority for taking the name of Smithson (his puta- 

 tive father's), he still continuing to usurpe and wrongfully hold, by his 

 own admission, the property of the Macie's. 



"Mr. tSmithsou has lived chiefly abroad, with manners and habits 

 more foreign than English. He is living unm arried in 1826. * * * 

 Several ingenious papers in the Phil:- Transactions and other periodi- 

 cal works here and on the Continent under the names James Smith- 

 son and James Macie. D. G." 



" in the college register it is usual, after incerting the Christian and 

 surnames of the person admitted, to add Filius Richardi (for instance) 

 Armigeri or Generosus, but not repeating the surname. 



" In Mr. Macie's case the addition is Filius Armigeri, omitting his 

 father's name altogether. D. G." 



Note in bound copy of MS. poclcet-booJc kept by Davies Gilbert. 



" May 26, 1786. 

 " On this day Mr. James Louis Macie (afterwards Smithson) was cre- 

 ated Master of Arts in the Convocation House. I remember his being 

 seated on the upper end of the bench, on the floor, on the proctor's lelt 

 hand J that we walked back together, when Macie exchanged his cap for 



