APPENDIX V 
ACT OF INCORPORATION, CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENTS 
AND RULES 
ACT OF INCORPORATION 
AN ACT To incorporate the National Academy of Sciences. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That Louis Agassiz, Massachusetts; J. H. 
Alexander, Maryland; S. Alexander, New Jersey; A. D. Bache, at large; F. A. P. 
Barnard, at large; J. G. Barnard, United States Army, Massachusetts; W. H. C. 
Bartlett, United States Military Academy, Missouri; U. A. Boyden, Massachu- 
setts; Alexis Caswell, Rhode Island; William Chauvenet, Missouri; J. H. C. 
Coffin, United States Naval Academy, Maine; J. A. Dahlgren, United States 
Navy, Pennsylvania; J. D. Dana, Connecticut; Charles H. Davis, United States 
Navy, Massachusetts; George Engelmann, Saint Louis, Mo.; J. F. Frazer, Penn- 
sylvania; Wolcott Gibbs, New York; J. M. Gilliss, United States Navy, District 
of Columbia; A. A. Gould, Massachusetts; B. A. Gould, Massachusetts; Asa 
Gray, Massachusetts; A. Guyot, New Jersey; James Hall, New York; Joseph 
Henry, at large; J. E. Hilgard, at large, Illinois; Edward Hitchcock, Massa- 
chusetts; J. S. Hubbard, United States Naval Observatory, Connecticut; A. A. 
Humphreys, United States Army, Pennsylvania; J. L. Le Conte, United States 
Army, Pennsylvania; J. Leidy, Pennsylvania; J. P. Lesley, Pennsylvania; M. F. 
Longstreth, Pennsylvania; D. H. Mahan, United States Military Academy, Vir- 
ginia; J. S. Newberry, Ohio; H. A. Newton, Connecticut; Benjamin Peirce, 
Massachusetts; John Rodgers, United States Navy, Indiana; Fairman Rogers, 
Pennsylvania; R. E. Rogers, Pennsylvania; W. B. Rogers, Massachusetts; L. M. 
Rutherfurd, New York; Joseph Saxton, at large; Benjamin Silliman, Connecti- 
cut; Benjamin Silliman, junior, Connecticut; Theodore Strong, New Jersey; 
John Torrey, New York; J. G. Totten, United States Army, Connecticut; 
Joseph Winlock, United States Nautical Almanac, Kentucky; Jeffries Wyman, 
Massachusetts; J. D. Whitney, California; their associates and successors duly 
chosen, are hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate, 
by the name of the National Academy of Sciences. 
Src. 2. And be it further enacted, That the National Academy of Sciences shall 
consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby 
constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its con- 
stitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations; to fill all vacancies created by death, 
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