514 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



On reading and filing the petition of the Lyceum of Natural History in 

 the City of New York, duly verified by John S. Newberry, the President 

 and chief officer of said Corporation, to authorize it to assume the corporate 

 name of the New York Academy of Sciences, duly setting forth the grounds 

 of said application, and on reading and filing the affidavit of Geo. W. 

 Quackenbush, showing that notice of such application had been duly 

 published for six weeks in the State paper, to wit, The Albany Evening 

 Journal, and the affidavit of David S. Owen, showing that notice of such 

 application had also been duly published in the proper newspaper of the 

 County of New York, in which county said Corporation had its business 

 office, to wit, in The Daily Register, by which it appears to my satisfaction 

 that such notice has been so published, and on reading and filing the affi- 

 davits of Robert H. Browne and J. S. Newberry, thereunto annexed, by which 

 it appears to my satisfaction that the application is made in pursuance of a 

 resolution of the managers of said Corporation to that end named, and there 

 appearing to me to be no reasonable objection to said Corporation so chang- 

 ing its name as prayed in said petition: Now on motion of Grosvenor S. 

 Hubbard, of Counsel for Petitioner, it is 



Ordered, That the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York 

 be and is hereby authorized to assume the corporate name of The New York 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Indorsed: Filed January 5, 1876, 

 A copy. 



Wm. Walsh, Clerk. 



Resolution of The Academy, accepting the order of the Court, passed 



February 21, 1876. 



And whereas, The order hath been pubhshed as therein required, and 

 all the proceedings necessary to carry out the same have been had, Therefore : 



Resolved, That the foregoing order be and the same is hereby accepted 

 and adopted by this Corporation, and that in conformity therewith the 

 corporate name thereof, from and after the adoption of the vote and resolu- 

 tion hereinabove referred to, be and the same is hereby declared to be 



THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



