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(/') In general, all loans are to be for a period not to exceed 

 three months, 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 

 til the specimens. 



4. The Botanic Garden agrees to give to the specimens of the 

 Society, deposited with it, supervision similar to that given its own 

 herbarium, and the Society hereby absolves the Botanic Garden 

 from all responsibility for loss or damage to said deposited speci- 

 mens from any canst 1 whatsoever. 



5. The specimens deposited are to remain the property of the 

 American Fern Society. 



6. Either party will give the other not less than one year's notice 

 ( it its desire and intention to terminate and cancel this agreement. 



7. The American Fern Society will remove all of the specimens 

 constituting its herbarium from the Laboratory Building and prop- 

 erty ot the Brooklyn Botanic Garden within not less than one year 

 after notice from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden of its desire to 

 terminate and cancel this agreement, and the Botanic Garden will 

 permit the removal ol specimens within one year 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 hern Society: 



(Signed) R.0BERT T. CLAUSEN, 



President 



Ithaca, New York, 

 January 22, 1941 



