MEMORANDUM OF LEASE 



The annexed is a true copy of the agreement between the 

 Faculty of the Cleveland Medical College on the one hand, 

 and the Curators and Trustees of the Cleveland Academy 

 of Natural kScience on the other, and which agreement 

 refers to the title held by the said Academy to the Museum, 

 at present in the College Building, corner of St. Clair and 

 Erie streets. 



Whereas^ In the year A. D. 1845 a Literary Society was 

 organized at Cleveland, Ohio, called the Cleveland Acad- 

 emy of Natural Science^ and the Constitution of said 

 Association being adopted as a Charter, and recorded 

 pursuant to the Act of March 11, 1845, in the Book of 

 Records of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, for Religious Societies, 

 page 2, as required by said Act of the Legislature of Ohio, 

 and thus became a corporation for the purpose therein 

 specified for the term of thirty years, 



And Whereas^ The said Cleveland Academy, by its 

 members, and the aid of the citizens of Cleveland, expended 

 a sum of about one thousand dollars, ($1,000,) towards fur- 

 nishing a room in the building of the Cleveland Medical 

 College, (corner of St. Clair and Erie streets, Cleveland,) 

 and towards furnishing and fitting up said room for a Muse- 

 um, or collection of specimens in Mineralogy, Geology, 

 Botany, Zoology, Natural History, and Natural Science 



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