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Academy of Sciences adopted American annual April April 20 ARTOTYPE ASA GRAY botanical Broadway Brownne By-laws cabinet CASPAR WISTAR CHAPTER Charles City collections College of Physicians Columbia College conchology Conn Constitution Corresponding Members Council Cozzens Curators Delafield dollars elected England F. C. Schaeffer February February 22 France Griscom Hall held Henry James James Clements John H JOHN LE CONTE John Torrey JOSEPH DELAFIELD Kissam Knevels lectures Librarian Library Lyceum building Lyceum of Natural March Mass member or fellow members and fellows membership minutes Mitchill Museum Natural History papers Ph.D Philadelphia Physicians and Surgeons present President printed Prof Professor Rafinesque Recording Secretary Redfield regular business meeting resident members ROBERT DINWIDDIE Robert H rooms Samuel Samuel L scientific Section Secy specimens street Stuyvesant Institute subscriptions tion Townsend Treasurer University volumes vote WILLIAM COOPER York Academy York Institution
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Page 68 - Catalogue of plants growing spontaneously within thirty miles of the city of New York.
Page 129 - Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine ; Member of the Medical Society of the County of New York; Resident Member of the Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York, etc.
Page 164 - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 165 - P. Kissam, Treasurer ; and John Torrey, William Cumberland, D'Jurco V. Knevels, James Clements, and James Pierce, Curators ; severally to be the first officers of the said corporation, who shall hold their respective offices until the twenty-third day of February next, and until others shall be chosen in their places. 5. And be it further enacted. That the present Constitution of the said Association shall, after passing of this Act, continue to be the Constitution thereof ; and that no alteration...
Page 68 - Walker the assurance of our sincerest sympathy in this their great bereavement. " Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be communicated to the family of our deceased associate.
Page 79 - ... mind that the storm was a progressive whirlwind. A conviction thus forced upon his mind after a full survey of the facts was not likely to lose its grasp. Amid all his cares, it clung to him, and was cherished with the enthusiasm usual to the student of nature, who is conscious of having become the honored medium of a new revelation of her mysteries. Nothing, however could have been further from his mind, than the thought that the full development of that idea, would one day place him among the...
Page 167 - Browne and JS 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 to changing its name as prayed in said petition: Now on motion of Grosvenor S.
Page 181 - By-Laws, or for any other offense deemed sufficient, by a vote of three-fourths of the members and three-fourths of the fellows present at any regular business meeting ; provided, that such action shall have been recommended by the Council at a regular business meeting, and one month's notice of such recommendation, and of the offense charged, shall have been given the member accused. 3. No alteration shall be made in these By-Laws, unless such alteration be submitted publicly in writing, at a regular...
Page 29 - And, therefore, I am silent. It remains To bless the hour the Corporation took it Into their heads to give the rich in brains, The worn-out mansion of the poor in pocket, Once "the old almshouse,
Page 164 - That the said society shall, from time to time, forever hereafter, have power to make, constitute, ordain and establish such by-laws and regulations as they shall judge proper for the election of their officers, for prescribing their respective functions, and the mode...