AN ACT 
TO INCORPORATE THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
Louis Agassiz, Massachusetts; J. H. Alexander, Maryland ; 
S. Alexander, New Jersey; A. D. Bache, at large; F. A. P. 
Barnard, at large; J. G. Barnard, United States Army, 
Massachusetts; W. H. C. Bartlett, United States Military 
Academy, Missouri; U. A. Boyden, Massachusetts; Alexis 
Caswell, Rhode Island; William Chauvenet, Missouri ; 
J. H. C. Coffin, United States Naval Academy, Maine; 
J. A. Dahlgren, United States Navy, Pennsylvania; J. D. 
Dana, Connecticut; Charles H. Davis, United States Navy, 
Massachusetts; George Engelmann, St. Louis, Missouri ; 
J. F, Frazer, Pennsylvania ; Wolcott Gibbs, New York; 
J. M. Gilliss, United States Navy, Kentucky; A. A. 
Gould, Massachusetts; B. A. Gould, Massachusetts ; Asa 
Gray, Massachusetts; A. Guyot, New Jerseys James 
New York; Joseph Henry, at large; J. E. Hilgard, at 
large, Illinois; Edward Hitchcock, Massachusetts; J. S. 
Hubbard, United States Naval Observatory, Connecticut ; 
A. A. Humphreys, United States Army, Pennsylvania 
J. L. Le Conte, United States Army, Pennsylvania; J 
