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cancel this Agreement; and the Botanic Garden will permit the 
removal of said journals and belongings within six months of 
notice from the American Fern Society of its desire to remove 
them and cancel this Agreement. 
For the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: 
(Signed) C. STUART GAGER, 
Director. 
For the American Fern Society: 
(Signed) WititraAM R. Maxon, 
President. 
BROOKLYN, N. ¥ 
January 15, 1927. 
AGREEMENT BETWEEN BROOKLYN BOTANIC GAR- 
DEN AND THE AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY 
CONCERNING THE DEPOSITION OF THE 
LIBRARY OF THE FERN SOCIETY 
AT THE BOTANIC GARDEN 
Wuereas, the American Fern Society wishes to make the 
contents of its library readily accessible to all students of ferns; 
and 
Wuerrtas, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden desires to cooperate 
in this object; and 
Wuereas, Dr. Ralph C. Benedict, Resident Investigator at 
the Botanic Garden, is an officer of the Fern Society, as Editor of 
the American Fern Journal, official organ of the Society, the over 
copies of which are now deposited at the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden in accordance with the terms of an Agreement between 
the Society and the Botanic Garden, dated January 15, 1927; 
It is hereby mutually agreed as follows: 
1. The American Fern Society will deposit its library, com- 
prising books, pamphlets, and periodicals received by it in 
exchange for the American Fern Journal or otherwise, at the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Botanic Garden will receive 
the same, and subsequent additions to the collection initially 
transferred, for deposit on the shelves of the Botanic Garden 
Library. 
