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Here is how it came into being: The Chamber of Commerce 

 of Sacramento, appreciating that its city, like most western ones, 

 contained merely the germ of its future growth, determined to 

 organize a volunteer city planning group, aimed to be the founda- 



Fig. i. Combining studies of outdoor art and of 

 nature, Hildesheim, Germany. Each child 

 has his rucksack with provisions — sometimes 

 everything necessary for an overnight stay. 



tion of a municipal city planning department, just as in the gold 

 mining days a volunteer fire department with hand drawn engines 

 had formed the basis of a later, city-owned system. 



Professor Zueblin and Mr. Charles Mulford Robinson had 

 already laid the foundation of the work. Then Dr. Werner 

 Hegemann of Berlin was engaged. Out of his survey came the 

 Committee of 150. This was divided into 15 sections. A Sub- 

 section was devoted to nature study extension. The school law 

 of California required instruction in agriculture and nature study. 



