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4. The following named persons are hereby selected as the Trustees for 

 the first year of its corporate existence: 



Ed. E. Ayer, Charles B. Farwell, George E. Adams, George R. Davis, 

 Charles L. Hutchinson, Daniel H. Burnham, John A. Roche, M. C. Bullock, 

 Emil G. Hirsch, James W. Ellsworth, Allison V. Armour, O. F. Aldis, Edwin 

 Walker, John C. Black, and Frank W. Gunsaulus. 



5. The location of the Museum is in the City of Chicago, County of Cook, 

 and State of Illinois. 



(Signed) , 

 George E. Adams, C. B. Farwell, Sidney C. Eastman, F. W. Putnam, 

 Robert McMurdy, Andrew Peterson, L. J.Gage, Charles L. Hutchinson, Ebene- 

 zer Buckingham, Andrew McNally, Edward E. Ayer, John M. Clark, Herman 

 H. Kohlsaat, George Schneider, Henry H. Getty, William R. Harper, Frank- 

 lin H. Head, E. G. Keith, J. Irving Pearce, Azel F. Hatch, Henry Wade Rogers, 

 Thomas B. Bryan, L. Z. Leiter, A. C. Bartlett, A. A. Sprague, A. C. McClurg, 

 James W. Scott, Geo. F. Bissell, John R. Walsh, Chas. Fitzsimons, John A. 

 Roche, E. B. McCagg, Owen F. Aldis, Ferdinand W. Peck, James H. Dole, 

 Joseph Stockton, Edward B. Butler, John McConnell, R. A. Waller, H. C. 

 Chatfield-Taylor, A.Crawford, Wm. Sooy Smith, P.S.Peterson, John C. Black. 

 Jno. J. Mitchell, C. F. Gunther, George R. Davis, Stephen A. Forbes, Robert 

 W. Patterson, Jr., M. C. Bullock, Edwin Walker, George M. Pullman, William 

 E. Curtis, James W. Ellsworth, Willaim E. Hale, Wm. T. Baker, Martin A. Ryer- 

 son, Huntington W. Jackson, N. B. Ream, Norman Williams, Melville E. Stone, 

 Bryan Lathrop, Eliphalet W. Blatchford, Philip D. Armour. 



STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) ss 

 Cook County. ) 



I, G. R. Mitchell, a Notary Public in and for said County, do hereby 

 certify that the foregoing petitioners personally appeared before me and acknowl- 

 edged severally that they signed the foregoing petition as their free and volun- 

 tary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth. 



Given under my hand and notarial seal this 14th day of September, 1893. 



G. R. MITCHELL, 

 [Seal] Notary Public, Cook County, III. 



CHANGE OF NAME. 



Pursuant to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Corporate members 

 held the 25th day of June, 1894, the name of the COLUMBIAN MUSEUM 

 was changed to FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. A certificate to this effect 

 was filed June 26, 1894, in the office of the Secretary of State for Illinois. 



CHANGE OF NAME. 



Pursuant to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Corporate members 

 held the 8th day of November, 1905, the name of the FIELD COLUMBIAN 

 MUSEUM was changed to FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 

 A certificate to this effect was filed November 10, 1905, in the office of the 

 Secretary of State for Illinois. 



