II. ACT OF INCORPORATION 



No. 3170. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 



Be It Known, That whereas Alpheus Hyatt, William Sanford 

 Stevens, 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 com- 

 plied 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 privileges, and 

 subject to the limitations, duties, and restrictions, which by law apper- 

 tain 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 HUN- 

 DRED AND ElGHTY-ElGHT. 



HENRY B. PIERCE, 

 Secretary of the Commonwealth. 

 [SEAL.] 



