4 ORDER OF COURT. 



At a Special Term of the Supreme 

 Court of the State of New York, 

 held at the Chamhers thereof, in 

 the County Court House, in the 

 City of New York, the 5th day of 

 January, 1876 : 



Present— Hon. George C. Barrett, Justice. 



In the matter of the applica- ] 

 tion of the Lyceum of Nat- j 

 ural History in the City of 1 

 New York to authorize it to I 

 . assume the corpoi-ate name 

 of The New Y^ork Academy 

 ■of Sciences. J 



'On reading and filing the petition of the Lyceum of Natural His- 

 tory 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 Y^'ork Academj- of Sci- 

 ences, duly setting forth the grounds of the 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 Journah and 

 the affidavit of David S. Owen, showing that notice of such appli- 

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

 County of New Y^ork, in which county said Corporation has its 

 business office, to w\i, in the Daily Register, by which it appears to 

 my satisfaction that such notice has been so published, and on read- 

 ing and filing the affidavits of Robert H. Browune and J. S. New- 

 berry, thereunto annexed, by which it appears to my satisfaction 

 that the application is made in pursuance of a I'esolution of the 

 .managers of said Corporation to that end named, and there appear- 

 ing to vae to be no reasonable objection to said Corporation so chang- 

 ing its name, as prayed in said petition : Now, on motion of Gros- 

 venor 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. W\LSH, Clerk. 



