AMENDED CHARTER. PASSED APRIL 8, 1871. STATE OF NEW YORK, NO. 237, IN SENATE. March 7, 1871.— Introduced with unanimous consent, by Mr. Bradley; read twice, and referred to the Committee on Literature; reported favorably from said committee, and committed to the Committee of the Whole. CHAP. 373. AN Ar in relation to The American Geographical and Statistical Society. PASSED April 8, 1871. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The name or corporate title of the said Society shall hereafter be The American Geographical Society of New York. 2. The object of the said Society shall be the advancement of geographical science; the collection, classification and scientific arrangement of statistics, and their results; the encouragement of explorations for the more thorough knowledge of all parts of the North American continent, and of other parts of the world which may be imperfectly known; the collection and diffusion of geographical, statistical and scientific knowledge, by lectures, printed publications, or other means; the keeping up of a correspondence with scientific and learned societies in every part of the world, or the collection and diffusion of information, and the interchange of books, charts, maps, public reports, documents, and valuable publica Alphabetical List of Foreign and Domestic Geographical and other Scientific Bodies with which this Society is in Correspondence and PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY AND CONTRIBUTED. Among the Natives of Australia, by CARL LUMHOLTZ, M.A. The Portuguese in the Track of Columbus, by Dr. P. J. J. VALENTINI 35, 167, 359 The Rio San Juan de Nicaragua, by Civil Engineer R. E. PEARY, U. S. N. Pará and the Amazons (in 1888), by WILLIAM BUTLER OGDEN, F.A.G.S. The South African Republics, by Miss A. RUSSELL Definitions of Geographical Names, etc., by KONRAD GANZENMULLER, PH.D. 516 Problem of Interoceanic Communication, etc., by A. DE GOgorza The Raiyan Moeris, by COPE WHITEHOUSE |