England..........to DC..........Andy Jackson.............20.............Smith Institute.........get it Dan Brown??  John Brown the abolitionist..................................a Black man holding keys with his left hand in A Span........whore house.......................his hearing is being examined in another wall picture......his right ear............you hear a nat. anthem with your ears......Star Span Banner..............Banneker.......used astronomy to place DC's corner stone...........on Jones Point..........an island in the Potomac river........Tom Sawyer's island................Disney World........Mark Twain wrote Tom S............two fathoms...........two pieces.......what is left of the Alex Aqueduct...................Stars.......astronomy.....it is all right at L'Enfant metro.........Pierre L'Enfant........burned the blue prints for the city map of Dc....(noon blue apples)..Ben B redrew the entire thing from memory....................................the Air and Space museum.......is right next to L'Enfant metro...........Pierre L'Enfant.......is buried in Arlington Nat Cemetery..........................a hop, skip and a jump from A Span........whore house.............L.......R.......i6, Dr. King............ear examination.......eye exam......right side, left side...............Black homeless man.......Ben Banneker..........Black  man polymath....................what a code......

Legacy and the Smithsonian

Later in the year of his death the United States government was informed about the bequest when Aaron Vail wrote to Secretary of State John Forsyth.^[21] This information was then passed onto President Andrew Jackson who then informed Congress; a committee was organized, and after much debate the Smithsonian Institution was established by legislation.^[22] In 1836 President Jackson sent Richard Rush, former Treasury Secretary, to England as Commissioner to proceed in Chancery Court to secure the funds. In 1838 he was successful and returned, accompanied by 104,960 gold sovereigns (in eleven crates) and Smithson's personal items, scientific notes, minerals, and library.^[23][24] The gold was transferred to the treasury in Philadelphia and was reminted into $508,318.46.^[23] The final funds from Smithson were received in 1864 from Marie de la Batut, Smithson's nephew's mother. This final amount totalled $54,165.38.^[25]
On 24 February 1847 the Board of Regents, which oversaw the creation of the Smithsonian, approved the seal for the institution. The seal, based on an engraving by Pierre Joseph Tiolier, was manufactured by Edward Stabler and designed by Robert Dale Owen.^[26] Although Smithson's papers and collection of minerals were destroyed in a fire in 1865, his collection of 213 books remains intact at the Smithsonian.^[4][27][28] The Board of Regents acquired a portrait of Smithson dressed in Oxford University student attire, painted by James Roberts, that is now on display in the crypt at the Smithsonian Castle.^[29] An additional portrait, a miniature, and the original draft of Smithson's will were acquired in 1877; they now reside in the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution Archives, respectively.^[30] Additional items were acquired from Smithson's relatives in 1878.^[31]

Relocation of Smithson's remains to Washington

Smithson's crypt in Washington

Smithson was buried just outside Genoa, Italy. The United States consul in Genoa was asked to maintain the grave site, with sponsorship for its maintenance coming from the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley visited the site, contributing further money to maintain it and requested a plaque be designed for the grave site. Three plaques were created by William Ordway Partridge. One was placed at the grave site, a second at a Protestant chapel in Genoa, and the last was gifted to Pembroke College, Oxford. Only one of the plaques exists today. The plaque at the grave site was stolen and then replaced with a marble version. During World War II, the Protestant chapel was destroyed and the plaque was looted. A copy was eventually placed at the site in 1963.^[27] The cemetery in Italy was going to be moved in 1905 for the expansion of an adjacent quarry. In response, Alexander Graham Bell, then a regent of the Smithsonian, proposed that Smithson's remains be moved to the Smithsonian Institution Building; in 1903, he and his wife, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, traveled to Genoa to exhume the body. A steamship departed Genoa on 7 January 1904 with the remains and arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey on 20 January, where they were transferred to the U.S.S. Dolphin for the trip to Washington. On 25 January a ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. and the body was escorted by the United States Cavalry to the Castle.^[32] When handing over the remains to the Smithsonian, Bell stated:

And now... my mission is ended and I deliver into your hands ... the remains of this great benefactor of the United States.^[32]

The coffin then lay in state in the Board of Regents' room, where objects from Smithson's personal collection were on display.^[32]

Memorial

Smithson's gravestone in the Smithsonian Institution Castle

After the arrival of Smithson's remains, the Board of Regents asked Congress to fund a memorial. Artists and architects were solicited to create proposals for the monument. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis Saint-Gaudens, Gutzon Borglum, Totten & Rogers, Henry Bacon, and Hornblower & Marshall were some of the many artists and architectural firms who submitted proposals. The proposals varied in design, from elaborate monumental tombs that, if built, would have been bigger than the Lincoln Memorial, to smaller monuments just outside the Smithsonian Castle. Congress decided not to fund the memorial. To accommodate the fact that the Smithsonian would have to fund the memorial, they used the design of Gutzon Borglum, which suggested a remodel of the south tower room of the Smithsonian Castle to house the memorial surrounded by four Corinthian columns and a vaulted ceiling. Instead of the tower room, a smaller room (at the time it was the janitor's closet) at the north entrance would house an Italian-style sarcophagus.^[33]
On 8 December 1904 the Italian crypt was shipped, in sixteen crates from Italy. It travelled on the same ship that the remains of Smithson travelled on. Architecture firm Hornblower & Marshall designed the mortuary chapel, which included marble laurel wreaths and a neo-classical design. Smithson was entombed on 6 March 1905. His casket, which had been held in the Regent's Room, was placed into the ground underneath the crypt. This chapel was to serve as a temporary space for Smithson's remains until Congress approved a larger memorial. However, that never happened, and the remains of Smithson still lie there today.^[34]