BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION. 3 



ing a laboratory or station for scientific study and investigation, and 

 a school for instruction in biology and natural history, and have 

 complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth 

 in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of 

 the President, Treasurer, and Trustees of said Corporation, duly 

 approved by the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this 

 office; 



Nou', therefore, I, HENRY B. PIERCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth 

 of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said A. Hyatt, W. S. Stevens, 

 W. T. Sedgwick, E. G. Gardiner, S. Minns, C. S. Minot, S. Wells, 

 W. G. Farlow, A. D. Phillips, and B. H. Van Vleck, their associates 

 and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are hereby 

 made, an existing Corporation, under the name of the MARINE 

 BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, with the powers, rights, and privi- 

 leges, and subject to the limitations, duties, and restrictions, which 

 by law appertain thereto. 



Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of 

 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed, this twentieth 

 day of March, in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Eight Hundred 

 and Eighty-Eight. 

 [SEAL] HENRY B. PIERCE, 



Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



III. BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION OF THE 

 MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



I. The annual meeting of the members shall be held on the second 

 Tuesday in August, at the Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass.-, at 

 12 o'clock noon, in each year, and at such meeting the members shall 

 choose by ballot a Treasurer and a Clerk, who shall be, ex officio, 

 members of the Board of Trustees, and Trustees as hereinafter pro- 

 vided. At the annual meeting to be held in 1897, not more than 

 twenty-four Trustees shall be chosen, who shall be divided into four 

 classes, to serve one, two, three, and four years, respectively, and 

 thereafter not more than eight Trustees shall be chosen annually 

 for the term of four years. These officers shall hold their respective 

 offices until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. The Direc- 

 tor and Assistant Director, who shall be chosen by the Trustees, shall 

 also be Trustees, ex officio. 



II. Special meetings of the members may be called by the Trustees 



