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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 re- 
ceives. 
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 representatives. 
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. 
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c The borrower shall pay all costs of transportation both ways, 
including sufficient insurance to represent replacement value of the 
publication. 
5. The 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 what- 
soever. 
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 publica- 
tions constituting its library and all records and papers related 
thereto from the Laboratory Building and property of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden within not less than one year after notice from 
