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AGREEMENT WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 
THIS AGREEMENT, made at the City of New York, this 
eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninet;- 
six, between THE New York Botanica, GARDEN, party of 
the first part, and THe TRusTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE in 
the City of New York, party of the second part, 
Witnesseth, That THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 
have agreed and by these presents do agree to deposit the 
Herbarium and Botanical Library belonging to the College 
(except such minor part thereof as it shall deem necessary for 
undergraduate instruction at the College) with the New 
YorK Botanical GARDEN, at the request and for the use of 
said Garden, upon the considerations and for the purposes and 
subject to the conditions following : 
1. That the officers and students of Columbia College may 
freely consult and use the same as heretofore, as well as the 
Library and Herbarium collected by the Garden, and that both 
the Library and Herbarium of the College shall be kept satis- 
factorily insured by the Garden. 
2. That Columbia College, either alone or in codperation 
with other institutions, may conduct university courses at the 
Garden for graduate or advanced students in botany and kin- 
dred subjects, which shall be free to their own students, and, 
as the authorities of the Garden may prescribe, to students at 
the Garden or from other institutions; that the reasonable use 
of the laboratories and floral material from the Garden needed 
for study shall also be available to such officers and students 
without charge, subject to any necessary regulations by the 
authorities of the Garden. 
3. That all courses of instruction given at the Garden 
shall likewise be open to the officers and students of Colum- 
bia College without charge; and so far as reasonably prac- 
ticable, botanical material needful for study shall be sup- 
plied to Columbia College for undergraduate work, as well as 
to other colleges, the public schools and other public educa- 
