Editing James Smithson (section)

==Further reading==
===Articles===
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* Bird Jr., William L., [https://web.archive.org/web/20050403050901/http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/pubs/bird.pdf William L. Bird, Jr. "A Suggestion Concerning James Smithson's Concept of 'Increase and Diffusion.'" ''Technology and Culture'' Vol. 24 No. 2 (April 1983): 246–255. ]
* {{cite journal|author-link=Nina Burleigh|first=Nina|last=Burleigh|title=Digging Up James Smithson: Alexander Graham Bell traveled to Italy at the turn of the 20th century on an audacious mission to rescue the remains of the man whose legacy endowed the Smithsonian Institution|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/content/digging-james-smithson|journal=American Heritage|volume=62|issue=2|date=Summer 2012}}
* [[CNN]], {{Cite news|title=How a Mysterious Englishman's Fortune Founded the Smithsonian|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/05/08/smithsonian.founding.ap|date=8 May 2000|access-date=18 June 2007|archive-date=26 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226072138/http://edition.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/05/08/smithsonian.founding.ap/|url-status=dead}}
* {{Cite news|last=Larner|first=Jesse|title=Foreign Motivations: How a Former President and an English Scientist Gave Us the Smithsonian (review of Nina Burleigh's ''The Stranger and the Statesman'')|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/21/RVGN53KDCS34.DTL|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=21 December 2003}}

===Books===
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* {{Cite book|last1=Bello|first1=Mark|author2=William Schulz|author3=Madeleine Jacobs|author4=Alvin Rosenfeld (eds.)|title=The Smithsonian Institution, a World of Discovery : An Exploration of Behind-the-Scenes Research in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Distributed by Smithsonian Institution Press for Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs|year=1993|isbn=1-56098-314-0|url=https://archive.org/details/smithsonianinsti00bell}}
* {{Cite book|last=Bolton|first=Henry Carrington|title=The Smithsonian Institution : Its Origin, Growth, and Activities|location=New York, N.Y.|year=1896}}
* {{Cite book|author-link=Nina Burleigh|last=Burleigh|first=Nina|title=The Stranger and the Statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum, The Smithsonian|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Morrow|year=2003|isbn=0-06-000241-7|url=https://archive.org/details/strangerstat00burl}}
* {{Cite book|last=Ewing|first=Heather|title=The Lost World of James Smithson : Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian|location=USA|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2007|isbn=978-1-59691-029-4|url=https://archive.org/details/lostworldofjames00heat}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last=Goode|editor-first=George Brown |title=The Smithsonian Institution, 1846–1896 : The History of its First Half Century|location=Washington, D.C.|year=1897}} Reprinted as {{Cite book|editor-last=Goode|editor-first=George Brown |title=The Smithsonian Institution, 1846–1896|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Arno Press|year=1980|isbn=0-405-12584-4}}
* {{Cite book|last=Gurney|first=Gene|title=The Smithsonian Institution, a Picture Story of its Buildings, Exhibits, and Activities|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Crown|year=1964}}
* {{Cite book|last=Hellman|first=Geoffrey T.|title=The Smithsonian : octopus on the Mall|location=Philadelphia; New York|publisher=J.B. Lippincott Company|year=1966}}
* {{Cite book|last=Karp|first=Walter|title=The Smithsonian Institution; an Establishment for the Increase & Diffusion of Knowledge among Men|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|year=1965}}
* {{Cite book|last=Rhees|first=William Jones (comp. & ed.)|title=The Smithsonian Institution : Documents Relative to its Origin and History, 1835–1889|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=G.P.O|year=1901}} Reprinted as {{Cite book|editor-last=Rhees|editor-first=William Jones |title=The Smithsonian Institution, 1835–1899 (2 vols.)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Arno Press|year=1980|isbn=0-405-12583-6}}