ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



FRANK R. LILLIE, Ex. Off. Chairman. 

 MERKEL H. JACOBS, Ex. Off. 



LAWRASON RIGGS, JR., Ex. Off. 

 E. G. CONKLIN, to serve until 1926. 

 C. R. STOCKARD, to serve until 1926. 

 I. F. LEWIS, to serve until 1927. 

 T. H. MORGAN, to serve until 1927. 



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. 



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 Yleck have associated themselves with the 

 intention of forming a Corporation under the name of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, for the purpose of establishing and maintain- 

 ing a laboratory or station for scientific study and investigation, and 

 a school for instruction in biology arid 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 Commonwealth 

 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 Yleck, their associates 



