IL 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 Vleck 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 and 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 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 estabhshed 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 Hun- 

 dred AND Eighty-Eight. 



HENRY B. PIERCE, 

 Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



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