(2) 
Gallup, Timothy F. Allen, Henry R. Hoyt, William G. 
Choate, William H. Draper, John S. Kennedy, Jesse Selig- 
man, William L. Brown, David Lydig, William E. Dodge, 
James A. Scrymser, Samuel Sloan, William H. Robertson, 
Stephen P. Nash, Richard W. Gilder, Thomas Hogg, Nelson 
Smith, Samuel W. Fairchild, Robert Maclay, William H. S. 
Wood, George M. Olcut, Charles F. Cox, James R. Pitcher, 
Percy R. Pyne and such persons as are now, or may here- 
after be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby 
constituted and created a body corporate by the name of The 
New York Botanical Garden, to be located in the City of New 
York, for the purpose of establishing and. maintaining a 
botanical garden and museum and arboretum therein, for the 
collection and culture of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, the 
advancement of botanical science and knowledge, and the 
prosecution of original researches therein and in kindred sub- 
jects, for affording instruction in the same, for the prosecution 
and exhibition of ornamental and decorative horticulture and 
gardening, and for the entertainment, recreation and instruc- 
tion of the people. 
Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have all such corporate 
powers, and may take and hold by gift, grant or devise all 
such real and personal property as may be necessary and 
proper for carrying out the purposes aforesaid, and for the 
endowment of the same, or any branch thereof, by adequate 
funds therefor. 
Sec. 3. Said corporation may adopt a constitution and 
by-laws; makes rules and regulations for the transaction of 
its business, the admission, suspension and expulsion of the 
associate members of said corporation, and for the number, 
election, terms and duties of its officers, subject to the provis- 
ions of this act; and may from time to time alter or modify 
its constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, and shall be 
subject to the provisions of Title 3, of Chapter 18, of the first 
part of the Revised Statutes. 
Sec. 4 The affairs of the said corporation shall be man- 
