INCORPORATION 
AN ACT 
TO INCORPORATE THE 
American Museum of Natural History, 
Passed April 6, 1869. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows : 
Section i. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. 
Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, 
William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William 
T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont 
Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, 
and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become 
members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a 
body corporate, by the name of " The American Museum of 
Natural History," to be located in the City of New York, for the 
purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum 
and Library of Natural History ; of encouraging and developing 
the Study of Natural Science ; of advancing the general knowl- 
edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular 
instruction and recreation. 
Sec. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt 
a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations 
for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and 
their government, the number and election of its officers, and to 
define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, and, 
from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, By-Laws, 
Rules, and Regulations. Until an election shall be held pursuant 
