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are deposited at the Garden. The work of sorting and placing 
these books on the shelves has been recently completed. 
e agreement with Columbia University in regard to this 
matter is as follows :— 
Fic. 4. Looking outward through main entrance of reading room. 
This agreement, made at the City of New York, this eighth 
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, be- 
tween The New York Botanical Garden, party of the first part, 
and the Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York, 
party of the second part, 
