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APPENDIX A 
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL 
ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that we, the undersigned, a 
majority being citizens and residents of the State of California, have 
this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of 
forming a corporation under the laws of the State of California, and we 
hereby certify: 
1. That the name of said corporation is the ‘‘ MARINE BIoLoGicaL 
ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO.’’ 
2. That the purposes for which said corporation is formed are: 
(a) To sueceed to all the rights, property, and privileges held by the 
Association designated the ‘‘ Marine Biological Association of San Diego.’’ 
(b) To earry on a biological and hydrographie survey of the waters 
of the Pacific Ocean, adjacent to the coast of Southern California; to 
build and maintain a publie aquarium and museum; and to prosecute 
such other kindred undertakings as the Board of Directors of said cor- 
poration may, from time to time, deem it wise to enter upon. 
(ec) To transfer the whole or any part of the properties, rights, and 
privileges of said corporation to the Regents of the University of Cali- 
fornia, the same to become a department of the said University, coordinate 
with its already existing departments, and to affiliate with said University. 
(d) To aequire by purchase, gift, or otherwise, and to hold and dis- 
pose of all kinds of properties, both real and personal. 
3. That the place where the principal business of said corporation is 
to be transacted is in the City of San Diego, County of San Diego, State 
of California. 
4. That the time for which said corporation is to exist is fifty years 
from and after the date of its incorporation. 
5. That the number of directors of said corporation shall be seven, 
and the names and residences of the directors, who are hereby appointed 
and elected for the first year to serve until their successors are elected 
and qualified, are as follows, to wit: 
Names Residences 
Homer H. Peters San Diego, California. 
Ellen B. Seripps San Diego, California. 
W. EK. Ritter Berkeley, California. 
Julius Wangenheim San Diego, California. 
Fred Baker San Diego, California. 
E. W. Seripps West Chester, Ohio. 
Jas. MacMullen San Diego, California. 
