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ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
On reading and filing the petition of the Lyceum of Natural History in 
the City of New York, duly verified by John S. Newberry, the President 
and chief officer of said Corporation, to authorize it to assume the corporate 
name of the New York Academy of Sciences, duly setting forth the grounds 
of said application, and on reading and filing the affidavit of Geo. W. 
Quackenbush, showing that notice of such application had been duly 
published for six weeks in the State paper, to wit, The Albany Evening 
Journal, and the affidavit of David S. Owen, showing that notice of such 
application has also been duly published in the proper newspaper of the 
County of New York, in which county said Corporation had its business 
office, to wit, in The Daily Register, by which it appears to my satisfaction 
that such notice has been so published, and on reading and filing the affi¬ 
davits of Robert H. Browne and J. S. Newberry, thereunto annexed, by which 
it appears to my satisfaction that the application is made in pursuance of a 
resolution of the managers of said Corporation to that end named, and there 
appearing to me to be no reasonable objection to said Corporation so chang¬ 
ing its name as prayed in said petition: Now on motion of Grosvenor S. 
Hubbard, of Counsel for Petitioner, it is 
Ordered, That the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York 
be and is hereby authorized to assume the corporate name of The New York 
Academy of Sciences. 
Indorsed: Filed January 5, 1876, 
A copy. 
Wm. Walsh, Clerk. 
Resolution of The Academy, accepting the order of the Court, passed 
February 21, 1876. 
And whereas, The order hath been published as therein required, and 
all the proceedings necessary to carry out the same have been had, Therefore: 
Resolved, That the foregoing order be and the same is hereby accepted 
and adopted by this Corporation, and that in conformity therewith the 
corporate name thereof, from and after the adoption of the vote and resolu¬ 
tion herein above referred to, be and the same is hereby declared to be 
THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
