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“Section 6. Each Governing Committee shall elect its own 
Secretary and shall report to the Board of Trustees at its regular 
meetings and at such other times as it shall be required. Each 
Governing Committee shall have the power to appoint such sub- 
committees as it may deem necessary, prescribing their duties. 
The chairmen of such subcommittees must be members of the 
Governing Committee. 
‘Each Governing Committee, subject to the direction of the 
Board of Trustees, shall make all contracts on behalf of the 
Board, relating to the work of its Department, shall audit all bills 
against the Institute relating thereto, and in general execute the 
will of the Board in all matters pertaining to the work of its 
Department not otherwise especially delegated. 
“Section 7. The Finance Committee shall, under the direc- 
tion of the Board of Trustees, have charge of the collection, 
increase and investment of the endowment and permanent funds 
of the Institute, and shall have general charge of the financial 
interest of the corporation. It may also advise the Treasurer as 
to any necessary regulations for the work of the Treasurer’s 
office, or the deposit or control of the current funds. 
“Section 8. The Membership Committee shall, under the 
direction of the Board of Trustees, have charge of the admission 
of members and the general increase of the membership of the 
Institute in its various Departments.”’ 
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY 
OF AMERICA AND THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC 
GARDEN CONCERNING THE PUBLICA- 
TION OF A JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
1. In order to help finance the launching of a new journal of 
botany, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden guarantees to become 
responsible to the extent of not more than one hundred dollars 
($100) an issue, for ten issues a year, and suggests that for the 
present, ten monthly issues (omitting August and September) 
constitute one volume. 
2. The Botanical Society of America, as soon as the publication 
of the new journal is decided upon, agrees to advance a sum of 
not less than three hundred dollars ($300), to meet the necessary 
