IV NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Corporation to the Supreme Court of the State of New York to 

 legalize and authorize such change, according to the statute in 

 such case provided, by Chittenden & Hubbard, acting as the 

 attorneys of the Corporation, and the said Supreme Court, on 

 the 5th day of January, 1876, made the following order upon 

 such application in the premises, viz: 



At a special term of the Supreme 

 Court of the State of New 

 York, held at the Chambers 

 thereof, in the County Court 

 House, in the City of New- 

 York, the 5th day of January, 

 1876: 



Present — Hon. Geo. C. Barrett, Justice. 



In the matter of the applica- 

 tion of the Lyceum of Nat- 

 ural History in the City of 

 New York to authorize it to 

 assume the corporate name 

 of the 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. New- 

 berry, 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 Al- 

 bany Evening Journal, and the affidavit of David S. Owen, show- 

 ing that notice of such application had 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 

 affidavits of Robert H. Browne and J. S. Newberry, thereunto 

 annexed, by which it appears to my satisfaction that the appli- 

 cation is made in pursuance of a resolution of the managers of 



