who took it upon himself to convince his fellow board members that we need to bring james smithson's bones here his body here, even though smithson had never visited this country and his lifetime had no close friends that we know of and no acquaintances. so yeah, it was the ship docked at the navy yard and southwest dc and there had a long procession with his british flag draped coffin. they brought him here to the to the building and in the great middle of the great hall. they had a ceremony at that time. they changed the flags to half american half british. and then took him upstairs to the region's room. and drape the coffin in american flag and these are the ideas of what they thought they were going to do, right? they never did right? they wanted to build what they called a proper memorial to james smithson. so the ideas came this is like the tomb of how it canarsus. this one's a little more vague, but they're both huge. they would have dwarfed the lincoln memorial time and as it became apparent that there was less money for this project. the designs went to smaller to a garden b

we met our tour guides inside the crypt of the institutions founder james smithson. this is abou40