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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 affidavits of Kobert 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 changing 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, There- 

 fore: 



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 reso- 

 lution herein above referred to, be and the same is hereby declared to be 

 THE NEW YOEK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



AMENDED CHARTER 



March 19, 1902 



Chapter 181 of the Laws of 1902 



An Act to amend chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of the laws of 

 eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to incorporate the Ly- 

 ceum of Natural History in the City of New York," a Corporation now 

 known as The New York Academy of Sciences and to extend the powers 

 of said Corporation. 



