AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE 



THE LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. 



Passed April 20, 1818. 



WHEREAS the members of the Lyceum of Natural His- 

 tory have petitioned for an act of incorporation, and the Le- 

 gislature impressed with the importance of the study of Natu- 

 ral History, as connected with the wants, the comforts, and 

 the happiness of mankind, and conceiving it their duty to en- 

 courage all laudable attempts to promote the progress of 

 science in this State — therefore, 



Be it enacted, by the People of the State of New-York, re- 

 presented in Senate and Assembly, That Samuel L. Mitchill, 

 Caspar W. Eddy, Frederick C. Schaeffer, Nathaniel Paulding, 

 William Cooper, Benjamin P. Kissam, John Torrey, William 

 Cumberland, D. Jurco V. Knevels, James Clements, and 

 James Pierce, and such other persons as now are, and may 

 from time to time become members, shall be, and hereby are 

 constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the 

 Lyceum op Natural History in the City op New-York, 

 and that by that name they shall have perpetual succession, 

 and shall be persons capable of suing and being sued, plead- 

 ing and being impleaded, answering and being answered 

 unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places 

 whatsoever, and may have a common seal, with power to 

 alter the same from time to time, and shall be capable of pur- 

 chasing, taking, holding, and enjoying to them and their sue- 



