Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1904. 
James  Smithson. 
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had  been  lent  to  another  former  servant,  Henry  Honore  Sailly, 
should  be  allowed  to  remain  with  the  debtor  for  five  years  from  the 
date  of  the  will  at  5  per  cent,  per  annum.  The  income  of  his 
estate,  with  the  exception  noted  above,  was  bequeathed  to  his 
nephew,  Henry  James  Hungerford,  who  was  empowered  to  make  a 
jointure  should  he  marry.  To  Hungerford's  children,  should  he 
have  any,  the  estate  was  bequeathed  absolutely  and  forever  in  such 
shares  as  the  father  might  care  to  direct,  and,  should  he  fail  to  direct 
such  division,  then  the  estate  was  to  be  divided  among  the  children 
United  States  National  Museum. 
in  such  shares  as  the  Lord  Chancellor  might  deem  proper.  The 
clause  which  is  of  especial  interest,  is  the  following :  "  In  the  case  of 
the  death  of  my  said  nephew  without  leaving  a  child  or  children,  or 
the  death  of  the  child  or  children,  he  may  have  had  under  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years,  or  intestate,  I  then  bequeath  the  whole  of  my 
property,  subject  to  the  Annuity  of  One  Hundred  Pound  to  John 
Fitfall,  &  for  the  security  &  payment  of  which  I  mean  Stock  to 
remain  in  this  Country,  to  the  United  States  of  America,  to  found  at 
Washington,  under  the  name  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  an  Estab- 
lishment for  the  i?icrease  &  diffusion  of  knowledge  amo7ig  men!' 
