38 The Chicago Academy of Sciences. 



5. That the building should be started in the year 

 1893 and completed in 1894. 



The commissioners of Lincoln park indicated a 

 willingness to enter into an agreement with the Acad- 

 emy and Mr. Laflin, by which a plot of ground in the 

 park should be designated for the occupancy of the 

 building. At this point it was called to mind that 

 several years before, the state legislature, at the in- 

 stance of Mr. William C. Goudy, the attorney of and 



WILLIAM C. GOUDY. 



at this time president of the board of commissioners of 

 Lincoln park, had enacted a law which gave authority 

 to that board by which it might provide for the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences within the territory over which they 

 had control and enter into a perpetual contract. The 

 commissioners also expressed a willingness to con- 

 tribute to the expenses of construction, with the under- 

 standing that they were to have within its walls rooms 

 for their offices in perpetuity. 



