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initial expense, and to contribute toward the maintenance of the 
journal, annually thereafter, and until notice to the contrary Is 
served one year in advance, or until mutual agreement to the 
contrary, the income from its accumulated funds toward the cost 
of publishing the journal; and the Botanical Society of America 
further agrees to assign annually a portion of the annual member- 
ship dues of each member, to an amount of not less than three 
dollars per member, as a subscription for the proposed journal, to 
be paid by the treasurer of the Botanical Society to the business 
manager of the journal. 
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3. It is further mutually agreed as follows: 
(a) That, during the tenure of this agreement, the business 
manager of the journal shall be a member of the scientific staff 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, that the undistributed copies of 
each number, and all the exchanges shall be deposited in the 
library of the Garden; and that the exchanges shall become the 
permanent property of the Garden. If, and whenever, at any 
time, the gross income of the journal, from all sources (including 
subscriptions, advertisements, the sale of back numbers and sets, 
and any subsidies or endowments), shall exceed the necessary 
expenses of publication, postage, stationery, etc., the surplus, 
either as principal or as interest on the same, shall be applied to 
improving the journal, either by increasing the number of pages, 
or the number or quality of the illustrations, or the quality of the 
paper, one or all, or in any other way, according as the editors 
and management may jointly agree; and the payment of an 
honorarium to contributors should be kept in mind as an end to 
be attained at the earliest possible date consistent with main- 
taining the magazine at a reasonable degree of excellence. 
(b) That underneath the official name of the journal on the 
front page of the cover, and on the editorial or business page, 
there be printed the statement: ‘Official Publication of the 
Botanical Society of America”; and that the statement of publi- 
cation, wherever printed, shall read: ‘* Published in cooperation 
with the Botanical Society of America, by the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden, at (address of printers).”’ 
(c) That the editorial board, which shall control the general 
editorial policy, shall (with the exception of one member to be 
