BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION. 409 



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 estab ishing 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 EIGHTY-EIGHT. HENRY B. PIERCE, 



Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



[SEAL.] 



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 Tustees 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. 



