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2. At the time of sending its library to the Botanic Garden, the 
Society will give the Garden, in duplicate, a full and complete 
list of every publication which it sends, and the Garden will 
sign and return one copy of this list as acknowledgment for what 
it receives. 
3. The Society’s library is to be administered as a reference 
library under the same regulations that govern the Botanic 
Garden Library as a whole, and shall be freely accessible to the 
Society’s members, to the staff of the Botanic Garden, and to the 
general public, in harmony with such regulations as may be in 
force or adopted from time to time by the Botanic Garden 
authorities, concerning hours and days of opening and closing the 
Laboratory Building of the Garden, and access thereto and to its 
various rooms. 
4. a. The publications belonging to the Society's Library will 
not be available for use outside the Laboratory Building except 
by loan to some other library, scientific institution, or school, or 
to the Fern Society through its officially designated repre- 
sentatives. 
b. In general, all loans are to be for a period not to exceed two 
weeks, unless special arrangement for renewal is mutually agreed 
upon by the Botanic Garden and the borrower. 
c. The borrower shall pay all costs of transportation both ways, 
including sufficient insurance to represent replacement value of 
the publication. 
5 e Botanic Garden agrees to give to the books and other 
publications of the Society, deposited with it, similar supervision 
to that given to its own Library, and the Society hereby absolves 
the Botanic Garden from all responsibility for loss or damage to 
said deposited books and other publications from any cause 
whatsoever. 
6. The books and other publications deposited are to remain 
the property of the American Fern Society. 
7. Either party will give the other not less than one year’s 
notice of its desire and intention to terminate and cancel this 
agreement. 
8. The American Fern Society will remove all of the publi- 
cations constituting its library and all records and papers related 
thereto from the Laboratory Building and property of the 
