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It is full of euliglitened patiiotism and of bopoful i>i"oi)liecy for tlie 

 United States and for Washington. -^ Where genius and talent are re- 

 spected, rewarded, and promoted," wrote he ''the arts and sciences will 

 rlourish and the wealth and ]>ower of the nation increase." 



The wisdom of such men as Cutbush opened the way foi' the organ- 

 ization of the National Institution, which in its turn, as we shall see, 

 had an im])ortant influence toward shaping the course of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Indeed the gejiu of the Smithsonian idea may be found in Cutbush's 

 address — and his si)irit was kindred to that of Henry and his associates, 

 who worked under more favorable conditions thirty years later.* 



1820. Law, Thomas. Remarks on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 



March 1, 1819. Wihnington, 1820. 8^. Boston Ath. 



1821. Law, Thomas. A reply to certain insinuations, published as an article in the 



sixty -eighth uunil)er of the Quarterly Review. Washington, 1827. 8*^. pi». 



1-27. (1.) 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 ap- 



jtointcd in Washington in 1824 to present a memorial to Congress, praying 



for the establishment of a national curi-ency. Washington : Way & Gideon. 



1821. 8^'. 40 pp. Lib. Cong. ; Boston Ath. 

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



8 . Boston Ath. 

 182G. Law, Thomas. Consider.ations tending to render the policy questionable of 



plans for licinidatiug, within the next four years, of the f> per cent stocks of 



the United States. Washington: S. A. Elliott. 1820. 8^. pp. 22. Lib. 



Cong.; Boston Ath. 



1827. "Law, Thomas. Propositions for creating means for commencing the Chesa- 



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

 , 1827?] 1 folio sheet. Lib. Cong. 



1828. Law, Thomas. Address to the Columbi.an Institute on a moneyed system. 



Washingtcm, 1828. 8^\ Lib. Cong. ; Boston Ath. 

 1830. Law, Thomas. Address to the Columbian Institute on the question, "What 



ought to be the circulating medium of a nation f" Washington, 1830. 8*^. 



Lib. Cong.; Boston Ath. 

 1833. Law, Thomas. Synopsis of a ])lan for a national currency. Washingtim, 1833 



8'\ liil). Cong. 

 * The two brothers .lames and Edward Cutbush were among the most active of the 

 ])0]nilar teachers and promoters of science and education at the beginning of the 

 present century, 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 enthusiastic m the work 

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

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

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

 uated in 1794, anil his brother .Tames at about the same time or a little later. James 

 Cutbush at the beginning of the century, .and for a few years subsequent, was en- 

 gaged in delivering courses of chemical lectures in Philadelphiii, presumably for the 

 benefit of medical students. 



He appears to have enlisted as a volunteer in a Pennsylvania regiment at the 

 begiiniiug of the war of 1812, and at its close, on the 12th of August, 1814, was 

 appointed Assistant Apothecary General in the regular army of the ITuited States, 



