ACT OF INCORPORATION 



We, the undersigned, persons of full age and citizens of the United 

 States, and a majority being citizens of the District of Columbia, pur- 

 suant to and in conformity with sections 545 to 552, inclusive, of the 

 Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Colum- 

 bia, as amended by an Act of Congress entitled " An Act to amend 

 the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of 

 Columbia and for other purposes," approved April 23, 1884, hereby 

 associate ourselves together as a society or body corporate and certify 

 in writing : 



1. That the name of the society is the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences. 



2. That the term for which it is organized is nine hundred and 

 ninety-nine years. 



3. That its particular business and objects are the promotion of 

 science, with power : 



a. To acquire, hold, and convey real estate and other property 



and to establish general and special funds. 



b. To hold meetings. 



c. To publish and distribute documents. 



d. To conduct lectures. 



e. To conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any depart- 



ment of science. 



f. To acquire and maintain a library. 



g. And, in general, to transact any business pertinent to an 



academy of sciences. 



4. That the affairs, funds, and property of the corporation shall be 

 in general charge of a Board of Managers, the number of whose mem- 

 bers for the first year shall be nineteen, all of whom shall be chosen 

 from among the members of the Academy. 



Witness our hands and seals this i8th day of February, 189S : 



(Signed) J. R. Eastman J. W. Powell 



F. W. Clarke Geo. M. Sternberg 



G. K. Gilbert H. N. Stokes 

 Arnold Hague Charles D. Walcott 

 L. O. Howard Lester F. Ward 



W J McGee Frank Baker 



C. Hart Merriam Bernard R. Green 



