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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 the said 

 application, and on reading and filing the affidavit of Geo. W. Quackenbush, show- 

 ing 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 has its business office, to wit, in the Daily Register, by which it ap- 

 pears to my satisfaction that such notice has been so published, and on reading and 

 filing the affidavits of Robert H. Brownne and J. S. Newberry, thereunto an- 

 nexed, 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 Cor- 

 poration so changing 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 zx, 1876. 



And zvhereas, the order hath been published 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 resolution herein 

 above referred to, be and the same is hereby declared to be 



THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



