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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
The Chicago Academy of Sciences is believed to have the honor of. Being organized at an earlier date than any other scholarly body now existing in Chi cago. In the year' 1856 a small circle. Of enthusiastic gentlemen united in a society for the promotion of scientific investigation, and adopted the name, The Chicago Academy of Natural Sciences. These, the original members of the Academy, were: James V. Z. Blaney, Nathan S. Davis, Sr., James W. Freer, C. A. Helmuth, Hosmer A. Johnson, Edmund Andrews, Henry Parker, J. Young Scammon, Franklin Scammon, Richard K. Swift, Joseph D. Webster, Eliphalet W. Blatchford and Henry W. Zimmerman. To this list many other names were soon added, and the new society grew and developed rapidly.
A definite organization was completed at a meeting held January 18, 1857, in the office of Dr. Edmund Andrews, and the following officers were elected.
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