TJic Genesis of the United States National Mtisettni, 91 



an important inflnence toward shaping the course of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Indeed, the germ of the vSmithsonian idea may be found in Cutbush's 

 address — and his spirit was kindred to that of Henry and his associates, 

 who worked under more favorable conditions thirty years later.' 



the biographical sketch of William Winston Seaton, by his daughter, and in Faux's 

 Memorable Days in A:nerica, the review of which in No. 68 of the Quarterly Review 

 evoked Mr. Law's "Reply," which contains much autobiographical matter. 



The following are titles of some of Mr. Law's publications, for the verbal accuracy 

 of which no responsibility is taken, since they are usually given second-hand: 

 1792. Law, Thomas. Sketch of some late arrangements and a review of the rising 



resources of Bengal. London, 1792. S°. Lib. Congress. 

 1794. Law, Thomas. "On Bengal," etc. Perhaps another ed. of* that printed in 



1792. Quoted b}- Allibone. 

 1806. [Law, Thomas.] Ballston vSpring. [A poem.] New York, 1806. Boston 



Alh. 

 1820. Law, Thomas. Remarks on the report of the Secretar}- of the Treasury, 



March i, 1819. Wilmington, 1820. 8°. Boston Ath. 



1824. Law, Thom.\S. A reply to certain insinuations, published as an article in the 



sixty -eighth number of the Quarterly Review. Washington, 1827. 8°. pp. 

 1-27. (i.) Lib. Cong. Refers to a libelous article; a review of Faux's 

 Memorable Days in America. 

 1827. Law, Thomas (and others). Report of the proceedings of the committee 

 appointed in Washington in 1824 to present a memorial to Congress, pray- 

 ing for the establishment of a national currency. Washington : Way & 

 Gideon. 1824. 8°. 40 pp. Lib. Cong. ; Boston Ath. 



1825. Law, Thom.\s. Address before the Columbian Institute. Washington, 1825. 



8°. Boston Ath. 



1826. Law, Thomas. Considerations tending to render the policy questionable of 



plans for liquidating, within the next four years, of the 6 per cent stocks 

 of the United States. Washington : S. A. Elliott. 1826. S°. pp. 22. Lib. 

 Cong. ; Boston Ath. 



1827. Law, Thom.\s. Propositions ■ for creating means for connnencing the Chesa- 



peake and Ohio Canal, with report of committee thereon. [Washington, 

 1827?] I folio sheet. Lib. Cong. 



1828. L-AW, Thomas. Address to the Columbian Institute on a mone3-ed system. 



Washington, 1828. 8°. Lib. Cong. ; Boston Ath. 

 1830. L-A.W, Thomas. Address to the Columbian Institute on the question, "What 



ought to be the circulating medium of a nation?" Washington, 1830. 8°. 



Lib. Cong. ; Bo.ston Ath. 

 1833. L.^.w, Thomas. Synopsis of a plan for a national currency. Washington, 



1833. 8°. Lib. Cong. 

 ' The two brothers James and Edward Cutbush were among the most active of the 

 ])(>pular teachers and promoters of science and education at the beginning of the 

 present centur)', and it would be unjust to allow their names to drop out of the his- 

 tory of American science. 



Both were physicians, both teachers of chemistry, both enthusia.stic in the work 

 of founding schools and learned societies. They were born, certainly in Penn.syl- 

 vania, probably Philadelphia, somewhere between the years 1750 and 1770. Edward 

 entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1790 and 

 graduated in 1794, and his brother James at about the .same time or a little later. 

 James Cutbush at the beginning of the century, and for a few years subsequent, 



