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appointment of Dr. Ralph C. Benedict as Resident Investigator, 
and otherwise; and 
WHEREAS, the Botanic Garden wishes to facilitate the publi- 
cation of information concerning ferns; and 
Wuereas, Dr. Benedict is an Editor of the American Fern 
Journal, it is mutually agreed as follows: 
1. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden will provide in its Laboratory 
Building and without charge to the American Fern Society, 
storage space for the back volumes and numbers that have 
accumulated to date, and for the over-copies of subsequent 
numbers as issued. 
2. The Botanic Garden agrees to receive and fill orders for 
back numbers and volumes of the Ferm Journal, and the American 
Fern Society agrees to reimburse the Garden for postage, services, 
and all other expenses in connection with receiving and filling 
orders. 
3. The Botanic Garden is not to be put to any expense, either 
in the delivery of the journals to the Garden or subsequently in 
any transfer or removal of them from the Garden. 
4. Properly authorized representatives of the American Fern 
Society are to have access to the stored journals as may be 
desired from time to time, in harmony with the regulations 
concerning hours and days of opening and closing of the Labora- 
tory Building of the Garden, and access thereto and to its various 
rooms. 
5. The Botanic Garden agrees to keep the journals stored in a 
suitable place, and to exercise every reasonable precaution for 
their proper and satisfactory preservation, but the American 
Fern Society specifically absolves the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
and any and all of its employees, from all responsibility for any 
injury or loss to the stored journals through fire, theft, water, or 
otherwise. 
6. Either party to this Agreement will give the other party 
not less than six months notice of its desire and intention to 
terminate and cancel this Agreement. 
7. The American Fern Society will remove all of its journals or 
other belongings from the Laboratory Building and property of 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden within not less than six months 
after notice from the Botanic Garden of its desire to terminate and 
