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1930-32 Annual Report
The entire report (available
in pdf format) contains pages 1-45.
Below is a brief
excerpt from page 15 of the first report of the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution.
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1930-1932
The concrete events that led up to the establishment
of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were, briefly:
the appointment by the National Academy of Sciences
of a Committee on Oceanography, the presentation by
the latter, in the autumn of 1929, of a report on the
scope and problems of oceanography and on the status
of this science in North America; the adoption of this
report by the Academy, with recommendation to the Rockefeller
Foundation that an independent oceanographic institution
be established on the east coast of North America; and
the action of the Foundation in granting to its Executive
Committee authority to aid in the construction and maintenance
of such a station.
The Institution, incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts,
received its charter on the sixth of January, 1930,
for the following purposes as detailed in the Act of
Incorporation:
To prosecute the study of oceanography in all its branches;
to maintain a laboratory or laboratories, together with
boats and equipment and a school for instruction in
oceanography and allied subjects; to accept and hold
money, and property of any kind whatsoever, and wherever
situated, and whether received through bequest, devise,
gift or otherwise; and to apply from time to time and
at any time to the purposes of the corporation, or to
any of them, all or any part of the income and/or principal
of any funds and/or property held by the corporation.
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