Charter, Order of Court, Constitution 

 and By-Laws. 



CHARTER. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE 



LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 

 IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Passed April -ZOth, 1818. 



WHEREAS, The members of the Lyceum of Natural History 

 have petitioned for an act of incorporation, and tlie Legislature, im- 

 pressed with the importance of the study of Natural History, as 

 connected with the wants, the comforts, and the happiness of n)an- 

 kind, and conceiving- it their duty to encourage all laudable 

 attempts to promote the progress of science in this State — therefore, 



Be it enacted by the People of the State of N'ew York, repre- 

 sented in Senate and Assembly, That Samuel L. Mitchill. Casper 

 W. Eddy, Frederick C. Schaeffer, Nathaniel Paulding. William 

 Cooper, Benjamin P. Kissam, John Torrey, William Cumberland, 

 D'Jurco Y. Knevels, James Clements, and James Pierce, and such 

 other persons as now ai-e, and may from time to time become mem- 

 bers, shall be, and liereby are, constituted a l)ody corporate and 

 politic, by the name of Lyceum of Natural History in the 

 City of New York, and that by that name they shall have per- 

 petual succession, and shall be persons capable of suing and being 

 sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered 

 unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places what- 

 soever; and may have a common seal, with power to alter the same 



