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CONSTITUTION 
OF THE 
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
REVISED AND AMENDED TO FEBRUARY 65, Igi2 
ARTICLE I 
This Corporation shall be styled THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF 
NATURAL History. 
ARTICLE II 
The several persons named in the charter, and such others 
as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed 
twenty-five in all at one time, and in addition, the Mayor, the 
Comptroller, and the President of the Department of Public 
Parks, of the City of New York, for the time being, ex-officio, 
shall be the Trustees to manage the affairs, property and 
business of the Corporation. 
The members of the Board of Trustees holding office at 
the time of the regular quarterly meeting of November, 1905, 
shall then, or at the first meeting of the Board thereafter, be 
divided by lot into five classes of five members each, to serve 
for the terms of one, two, three, four and five years respec- 
tively from the date of the annual meeting of February, 1906. 
The Board of Trustees at each annual meeting thereafter, or 
an adjournment thereof, shall by ballot, by a majority vote of 
the Trustees present at the meeting, elect five Trustees to 
supply the places of the class whose term expires at that meet- 
ing; said newly elected Trustees to hold office for five years 
or until their successors are elected. In case of a vacancy in 
the Board by death, resignation, disqualification or otherwise, 
the vacancy shall be filled by ballot, in like manner, by the 
Board of Trustees at any regular meeting or special meeting, 
for the unexpired term. No person shall be eligible for elec- 
tion as Trustee unless his name shall be presented by the 
Nominating Committee at a regular or special meeting of the 
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