MONTHLY 



JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



VOL. I. 



MARCH, 1846. 



SO. 9. 



SMITHSONIAN FUND : 



SUGGESTIONS AS TO ITS APPUCATIOX : BY J. W. HARDY. OF VA. 

 With respect to lids Fund, so senerously be- : sard it as a somewhat material occarrence. At 

 Sto-wed on oar cotmcrv, by a fareigner, and i all events there would seem to be, on that ac^ 

 which still remains in a state of aegaestrarion , coont, not the less proprie^, not to sn- obl%»- 

 we have alwavs held the opinion, eo ablv and I ticm, to associate, with a masniScent psbfic 

 irresistibly eniorced in the following essay, that benefactiop, the »amu qftke gfrnfOvut forris^er 

 it shoold be eo disposed of as to dmxLse a knowl- i rko Itttcwed it. If otb^ InstitiitioDS or istO'- 

 edge of the science and iUtistrate the best prac- I ests would reject the naioe, and widt it d>e boon, 

 tice of Asrieultvre and HortievltKn ; in the ' we will answer for it that Asriemlture will boC 

 proportion thai these branches of industry con- | be so &stidious. Her votaries will sladhr and 

 tribute to the sustenance, growth and well-being sraiefcHy inscribe his name on any temple ded> 

 of the country. At all events, in the name of' rated by his munificence to her benefit and skry. 



common decency and gratitude, let tometkins 



he dcm rith iV-or let it be re.=TOred to die heirs F^^^-^is Mamoe. Jb. Es^ 



Cor. Secre mr v ot the Xadoaai Inaonte : 

 of the Testator, who are fast acquiring a right to , jj^^j, ^^r , j^ representadves of d»e people 

 recover it. in any court of equity. The difficul- are a^ain assembled in Congress, and a hill ba* 

 ty, as we have alwravs foreseen, will be in the been introduced to dispose of the larse ftaid 

 various conceits of Members ot Congress, each l>^aeathed to the United Stales by Mr. Smitb- 



r.i. * _i. I. J . • . ^t***- I assume, as sranted. that the aiih and 



one of the tew who can be roused to an mterest . .,.„..- , . „ 



I honor ot the > atx»n. as to this Fund, will t>e 

 in the subject fanagining that his own is the ; preserved inviolate : and it v^-oald be gutimng 



to me if the credit of establishing an InsdroCiui. 

 hozK>rable to the Xatioo. and suitable to the lib- 

 eral designs of Mr. Smithson, should belons to 



only -wise plan of investing and using the money. 

 There are. too, even among those who ardently 

 desire its benefits for the legitimate objects of 

 the bequest, some who would yet make difficulty 

 even about the name of the Establishment to be 

 created ; like the dog who, in crossing the 



the present Congress. An occaskm more fit 

 than the present will hardly present itself tcr 

 publishing, through you. some views rescectisg 

 this interesting subject. With becoming deies- 



etream. let go his meat for the sake of an empty ' «»<^ I proceed at once to my object. 



shadow. So fer from higgling about a maner w '^'^ expressive language of Smiths.^ as ts 



I the design he wished to accomplish with the 

 I Fund, is doubtless remembered: "Theincre^e 



really unsubetantial. when compared with a ju- 

 dicious application of the Fund, we would not. 

 for its sake, lose a day's interest of the money. 

 Bat if difficulties so visionaiy must be enter- 

 tained, sorely there could be nothing very far 

 wrong or graceless in giving it the name of 

 Smithsos. If he made no intimation of such 



J and diffiision of Knowledge among men." I 



' agree with the late memorable Da Pooceaa. 



that, in considering attentively the words of Mr. 



Smithson, we must be convinced that "las 



views w»« more extensive than the fiiaadatioB 



of an establishment for the {iromotian of partics- 



I lar objects of Science, and that he eont^plated 



a condition, it does cot follow that he did not re- , an InstJtuiiac that would embrace die whole 



