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Lyceum .of Natural History in the City of New York " to " The 

 New York Academy of Sciences," which vote and proceedings 

 appear of record, an appHcation has been made in behalf of said 

 Corporation to the Supreme Court of the State of New York to 

 legalize and authorize such change, according to the statute in 

 such case provided, by Chittenden & Hubbard, acting as the 

 attorneys of the Corporation, and the said Supreme Court, on 

 the 5th day of January, 1876, made the following order upon 

 such application in the premises, viz : 



At a special term of the Supreme 

 Court of the State of New York, 

 held at the Chambers thereof, 

 in the County Court House, in 

 the City of New York, the 5th 

 d»y of January, 1876: 



Present — Hon. Geo. C. Barrett, Justicg. 



In the matter of the applica- 

 tion of the Lyceum of Nat- 

 ural History in the City of 

 New York to authorize it to 

 assume the corporate name 

 of the 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. New- 

 berry, 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, TJie Al- 

 bany Evening Jouniai, and the affidavit of David S. Owen, show- 

 ing that notice of such application had also been duly published 

 in the proper newspaper of the County of New York, in which 



