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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, Zhe Albany Evening Fournal, 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 21, 1876. 
And whereas, 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. 
