BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION. 3 



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 labor- 

 atory o station fo- 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, Treas- 

 urer, and Trustees of said Corporation, duly approved by the Com- 

 missioner 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, \V. T. Sedgwick, E. G. Gardiner, S. Minns, C. S. Minot, 

 S. Wells, \V. 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 

 privileges, 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 HUN- 

 DRED AND ElGHTY-ElGHT. 



HENRY B. PIERCE, 



(Seal). 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 Di- 

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

 shall also be Trustees, ex officio. 



