NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. 



CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. 



This is to Certify that we whose names are hereunto subscribed, 

 citizens of the United States, and a majority of whom are citi- 

 zens of the District of Columbia, have associated ourselves to- 

 gether pursuant to the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the 

 United States relating to the District of Columbia, and of an act 

 of Congress entitled : " An Act to amend the Revised Statutes 

 of' the United States relating to the District of Columbia and for 

 other purposes," approved April 23, 1884, as a Society and body 

 corporate, to be known by the corporate name of the National 

 Geographic Society, and to continue for the term of one hundred 

 years. 



The particular objects and business of this Society are: to in- 

 crease and diffuse geographic knowledge; to publish the transac- 

 tions of the Society; to publish a periodical magazine, and other 

 works relating to the science of geography; to dispose of such pub- 

 lications by sale or otherwise and to acquire a library, under the 

 restrictions and regulations to be established in its By-Laws. 



The affairs, funds and property of the corporation shall be in 

 the general charge of Managers, whose number for the first year 

 shall be seventeen, consisting of a President, five Vice-Presidents, 

 a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer 

 and eight other members, styled Managers, all of whom shall be 

 chosen by ballot at the annual meeting. The duties of these 

 officers and of other officers and standing committees, and their 

 terms and the manner of their election or appointment shall be 

 provided for in the By-Laws. 



Gardiner G. Hubbard, J. W. Powell, 

 C. E. DuTTON, Henry Gannett, 



O. H. Tittman, a. H. Thompson, 



J. Howard Gore, A. W. GbiEELY, 



C. Hart Merriam, Heistrt Mitchell, 



J. R. Bartlett, . George Keenan, 



Rogers Bienie, Jr., Marcus Baker, 



Gilbert Thompson. 



