ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 



C. E. McCLUNG, Chairman. 



M. M. METCALF. 



J. R. SCHRAMM. 



E. E. JUST. 



ROBERT A. BUDINGTON. 



CHARLES J. FISH. 



A. H. STURTEVANT. 



ALFRED C. REDFIELD. 



FRANK R. LILLIE. 



II. ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



No. 3170 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



Be It Known, That whereas Alpheus Hyatt, William Sanford Ste- 

 vens, William T. Sedgwick, Edward G. Gardiner, Susan Minns, 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, Samuel Wells, William G. Farlow, Anna D. 

 Phillips and B. H. Van Vleck have associated themselves with the 

 intention of forming a Corporation under the name of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining 

 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; 



Now, therefore, I, HENRY B. PIERCE, Secretary of the Common- 

 wealth 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 asso- 

 ciates 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. 



