Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, Volume 12American Geographical Society of New York, 1880 |
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Page xii - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page xix - CHAPTER XIV. COUNCIL. 1. The Council shall have the management and control of the affairs, property and funds of the Society, and shall designate an incorporated bank in the city of New York where the said funds shall, from time to time as they accrue, be deposited by the treasurer. 2. It may frame its own by-laws, not inconsistent with the charter or by-laws of the Society. 3. It shall appoint the necessary agents, clerks and servants of the Society, with such powers and duties, privileges and compensation...
Page 201 - As, however, some improvements have since then been made in the mode of flying and estimating the heights, it may be as well to give a brief account of the scheme tie ticn'o.
Page 145 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people — chiefly women and children — who, near this spot, were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondopunt of Bithoor, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the fifteenth day of July, 1857.
Page xvii - The President, or (in his absence) one of the Vice-Presidents, or (in the absence of all of them) one of the members shall preside at all meetings of the Association. The President shall be ex officio a member of the Executive Committee.
Page 223 - ... have felt that that forthcoming navigable season of 1847 would see their ships pass over so short an intervening space! It was ruled otherwise. Within a month after Lieutenant Gore placed the record on Point Victory, the much-loved leader of the expedition, Sir John Franklin, was dead; and the...
Page ix - Society shall be a president, three vicepresidents, a corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a librarian; and a treasurer and such other officers as may from time to time be provided for by the by-laws of the said Society.
Page 246 - SOCIETY are to encourage geographical exploration and discovery ; to investigate and disseminate new geographical information by discussion, lectures and publications ; to establish in the chief maritime city of the country, for the benefit of commerce, navigation, and the great industrial and material interests of the United States, a place where the means will be afforded of obtaining accurate information for public use of every part of the globe.
Page x - ... affairs, shall have power to form a code of By-Laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, which code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the Society, its officers and members.
Page xii - ... and' its geological history, giving its climatology, its productions, animal, vegetable, and mineral ; its exploration, navigation, and commerce ; having especial reference to that kind of information which should be collected, preserved, and be at all times accessible for public uses in a great maritime and commercial city.