<p>This subsection of the âNames and taxonomyâ section indicates the name(s) of the gene(s) that code for the protein sequence(s) described in the entry. Four distinct tokens exist: âNameâ, âSynonymsâ, âOrdered locus namesâ and âORF namesâ.<p><a href='/help/gene_name' target='_top'>More...</a></p>Gene namesi.
This page has an interactive image of a coin featuring James Smithson's portrait, as well as information about Smithson, whose bequest of money founded the Smithsonian. Also of interest is a coin from 1838 created from Smithson's original bequest.
James Smithson: Founder of the Smithsonian Institution. James Smithson (c. 1765-1829), founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, was born in 1765 in France with the name James Lewis Macie. The illegitimate son of Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie and Hugh Smithson, 1st Duke of Northumberland, he changed his name as well as his citizenship, becoming a naturalized British citizen around the age of ten.