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Item Agreement between the Department of Public Parks of the City of New York and the American Museum of Natural History to build the Museum in Manhattan Square(1878) New York (N.Y.). Department of Public Parks.; American Museum of Natural History.; Wenman, James F. (James Fowler); Irwin, William.; Stuart, Robert Leighton.Item Chapter 119, An act to incorporate the American Museum of Natural History : passed April 6, 1869.(2012-08-10) New York (State). Legislature. Assembly; American Museum of Natural History.Transcription of text: The people of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and its Assembly do enact as follows: Section 1, John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, Robert . 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, Anson 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" above line] 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 sciences; of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreation. [Section] 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 to such constitution and by-laws, the persons named in the first section of this act shall be and are hereby declared to be the trustees and managers of said corporation and its property. [Section] 3. The said corporation may purchase and hold or lease any real and personal estate necessary and proper for the purpose of its incorporation, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value. [Section] 4. Said corporation shall possess the general powers and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the revised statutes. [Section] 5. This act shall take effect immediately.Item A survey of multivariate methods for systematics(New York : N.A. Neff & L.F. Marcus, 1980 (New York : Printed at the American Museum of Natural History), 1980) Neff, Nancy A.; Marcus, Leslie Floyd; American Society of Mammalogists. Meeting (1980 : Kingston, R.I.); American Museum of Natural History."This manual was prepared for distribution at a workshop on Numerical Methods in Systematic Mammalogy, held on 9 June 1980 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Kingston, Rhode Island."--Verso t.p. Bibliography: p. [213]-235.Item Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Samlung aufgestellt im Jahr 1865.(2012-02-22) Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867.; American Museum of Natural History.A catalog prepared by the author for his ornithological collection most of which is now the property of the American Museum of Natural History. Consists mainly of listing of South American birds. Also includes Prince Maximilian's views about the status and nomenclature of the species he owned.