II 



To make and use a common seal and the same to break and alter at 



its pleasure. 



Ill 



The object of the corporation shall be to encourage in the broadest 

 sense and most liberal manner, investigation, research and discovery in the 

 Pacific Ocean, and to make application of know^ledge thereof to the improve- 

 ment of mankind; and in particular: 



(a) To conduct, endov/ and assist investigation in any department of 

 science and to this end to cooperate w^ith governments, universities, colleges, 

 technical schools, corporations, learned societies, organizations and indivi- 

 duals. 



(b) To appoint committees and experts to direct special lines of 

 research. 



(c) To publish and distribute documents. 



(d) To conduct lectures, hold meetings and acquire and maintain a 

 library. 



(e) To purchase or otherwise acquire and hold, and to dispose of 

 property, real, personal and mixed, not to exceed in value at any one time 

 the sum of ten million ($ 1 0,000,000) dollars, and to lease or rent such 

 property, and to construct such buildings, vessels and equipment as may be 

 deemed necessary or convenient to carry on the work of the corporation. 



(f) In general to do and perform all things necessary, incidental or 

 convenient to promote the objects of the Institution, and to prosecute ethno- 

 graphical, biological and general scientific surveys of the Pacific Ocean, and 

 to amplify, apply and publish the results of such surveys, during the first 

 fifteen years of the corporate life of the Institution, or until said work shall 

 have been substantially accomplished. 



The Trustees herein appointed and their successors are hereby pro- 

 vided with full power to modify, from time to time, the conditions and 

 regulations under which any work shall be carried on, so as to secure the 

 application of the funds in the manner best adapted to the conditions of 



the times. 



IV 



The location of the principal offices of the corporation shall be at 

 Honolulu, on the Island of Oahu, in the Territory of Hawaii; and the cor- 



