Smithsonian Institution Definition

Smithsonian Institution Sentence Examples

• Most of the specimens were sent to the National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington.

• The site was purchased by the United States government, and all the expenses come from national funds, the management being vested in the Smithsonian Institution.

• Meyer, director of the zoological museum at Dresden, has published an article on the alleged existence of the lion in historical times in Greece, a translation of which appears in the Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1905.

• In the Mall are the building of the Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian Institution (q.v.), the National Museum (1910), the Army Medical Museum and the Bureau of Fisheries, and here a building for the Department of Justice is to be erected.

• By his will he bequeathed upwards of £100,000 to the United States of America to found the Smithsonian Institution.