Dec
25

Today in Smithsonian History: December 25, 1895

Pembroke College Chapel Quad in the snow (February 2007) via Wikipedia.

Pembroke College Chapel Quad in the snow (February 2007) via Wikipedia.

December 25, 1895 A complete set of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution is deposited in the Library of Pembroke College, Oxford. James Smithson, founding donor of the Smithsonian, was graduated from Pembroke in 1786.

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