4 MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



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 officin, 

 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 

 President of the Corporation, the Director and the Associate Director 

 of the Laboratory, shall also be Trustees, ex officio. 



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

 to be held in Boston or in Woods Hole at such time and place as may 

 be designated. 



III. The Clerk shall give notice of meetings of the members by 

 publication in some daily newspaper published in Boston at least 

 fifteen days before such meeting, and in case of a special meeiin- 

 the notice shall state the purpose for which it is called. 



IV. Twenty-five members shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. 

 Y. The Trustees shall have the control and management ut the 



affairs of the Corporation; they shall present a report of its condition 

 at every annual meeting; they shall elect one of their number PIVM- 

 dent of the Corporation who shall also be Chairman of the Board of 



