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ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
The Council considers the coming celebration a fitting occasion for a general 
expression of appreciation of Darwin’s life and work and therefore invites all friends 
of science in New York and vicinity to join in the proposed commemoration and in 
erecting a suitable tribute to Darwin’s memory in the Natural History Museum, the 
most appropriate place in this metropolis. ***** 
Edmund Otis Hovey 
Secretary, New York Academy of Sciences 
West 77th Street and Central Park, West 
Charles F. Cox 
President 
New York, 31 October, 1908 
The following invitation was sent out to the members of the American 
Museum of Natural History, the New York Zoological Society, the New 
York Botanical Garden and sister scientific societies throughout the world, 
as well as to all classes of members of the Academy and its affiliated societies: 
The New York Academy of Sciences 
invites you to attend its 
exercises commemorating the 
One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of 
Charles Darwin 
and the 
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of 
“ The Origin of Species ” 
American Museum of Natural History 
Central Park, West, and Seventy-seventh Street 
February the twelfth, nineteen hundred nine 
at three o’clock p. m. 
On the day of the celebration, the committee charged by the Council 
with making arrangements for the event carried out the following programme: 
