ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 



OF THE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

 In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Four 



An Act 



To Incorporate the "American Association for the Advancement of Science" 

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, 

 and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



Section i. Joseph Henry of Washington, Benjamin Peirce of Cambridge, James D. 

 Dana of New Haven, James Hall of Albany, Alexis Caswell of Providence, Stephen 

 Alexander of Princeton, Isaac Lea of Philadelphia, F. A. P. Barnard of New York, 

 John S. Newberry of Cleveland, B. A. Gould of Cambridge, T. Sterry Hunt of Boston, 

 Asa Gray of Cambridge, J. Lawrence Smith of Louisville, Joseph Lovering of Cam- 

 bridge, and John LeConte of Philadelphia, their associates, the officers and members of 

 the Association known as the "American Association for the Advancement of Science," 

 and their successors are hereby made a corporation by the name of the "American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science," for the purpose of receiving, purchasing, hold- 

 ing, and conveying real and personal property, which it now is, or hereafter may be 

 possessed of, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the restrictions, duties 

 and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now or hereafter may be in force and 

 applicable to such corporations. 



Section 2. Said corporation may have and hold by purchase, grant, gift, or otherwise, 

 real estate not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in value, and personal 

 estate in any amount.* 



Section 3. Any two of the corporators above named are hereby authorized to call the 

 first meeting of the said corporation in the month of August next ensuing, by notice 

 thereof "by mail," to each member of the said Association. 



Section 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



In Senate, March 17, 1874. House of Representatives, March 10, 1874. 



Passed to be enacted, Passed to be enacted, 



GEO. B. LORING, President, John E. Sanford, Speaker, 



Secretary's Department, March 19, 1874. 



Boston, April 3, 1874. Approved, 



A true copy, Attest: W. B. WASHBURN. 



David Pulsifer, 

 Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



*In accordance with amendment by Special Act of Massachusetts Legislature, Chapter 238, approved 

 March 30, 1915. 



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