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Identifier: cu31924104089432 Title: The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909 Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums Publisher: New York : Irving Press Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: he Central Park, formerly known as Manhattan Square,or any other public park, square, or place in said city, asuitable fireproof buUding ... for the purpose of establish-ing and maintaining therein ... a Museum of NaturalHistory, by the American Museum of Natural History . . .and it shall be the duty of and lawful for the Comptrollerof the City of New York to create and issue in the mannerin this act provided such additional amounts of a publicfund or stock, to be denominated The Museums of Artand Natural History Stock, as shall be necessary to provide,the money required for erecting said buildings, for an amountnot exceeding the aforesaid limitations.! * Letter from W. A. Haines to Andrew H. Green, December 23, 1869. Theterms were accepted by Mr. Green, January 21, 1870. t Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed April 22, 1876. [13] IIHISTORY OF THE MUSEUM UNDER THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF JOHN DAVID WOLFE 1869-1872 ROBERT L. STUART 1872-1881 MORRIS KETCHUM JESUP 1881-1908

Text Appearing After Image: JOHX DAVID WOLFE FIRST PRESIDENT 1869-1872 From Museum Portrait by Daniel Huntington PRESIDENCY OF JOHN DAVID WOLFE 1869-1872 THERE was a universal predisposition to assist the new in-stitution, and public administrators as well as individualswelcomed its foundation, indorsed its aims, and promisedassistance. It was almost immediately realized that the Museum, thus tenta-tively organized, needed a charter, to give it corporate functions andresponsibility, and Messrs. Joseph H. Choate, William A. Haines, andHoward Potter were made a committee to prepare a charter, suggesta name and apply to the Legislature for the passage of an act of in-corporation. On February 26 a meeting of the Trustees was held at the resi- The charter,dence of the President, and the committee appointed at the previousmeeting to prepare a draft of a charter presented their report, whichwas adopted section by section and as a whole. This charter, which first contained the name American Museumof Natural History, was

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