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this plan of working with small groups it would have been com- 
paratively easy to more than double our figures of attendance. 
Need of Motor Bus—To take a class of from 30 to 50 children, 
of ten to fifteen years of age, from almost any public school in 
the City to the Botanic Garden requires a trolley ride, and often 
a transfer from one line to another. Under ideal conditions of 
transit this would involve more or less danger to the children, 
and place a large responsibility upon the teacher. Under the 
present overcrowded condition of all transit lines, at practically 
all hours of the day, the danger and risk are greatly increased. 
Teachers who bring classes carry a large responsibility and are 
entitled to much credit for making the effort. Of course if 
teachers and principals did not feel that the educational returns 
of a visit to the Botanic Garden were large enough to justify 
the effort and risk of the trips they would not be made in such 
large numbers throughout the year. 
A large motor carry-all is greatly needed to transport the chil- 
dren to and from the Garden; this would make it possible for 
the children to come with less risk of accident, with more comfort 
(regardless of the weather), with less loss of time in transit, and 
therefore more frequently, and with closer adherence to schedule. 
The city of Cincinnati pays the carfare of the children to and 
from their children’s gardens, under certain regulations, but the 
better plan is the motor bus, as here suggested. No finer phi- 
lanthropic opportunity is now at hand in Brooklyn for one who 
loves children and believes in making their educational advan- 
tages as rich as possible. 
Cooperation with High Schools—In the Bulletin of High 
Points for November, 1919, published by the New York City 
Board of Education, there is an article by Dr. R. C. Benedict, of 
Stuyvesant High School, on the cooperation of the Garden with 
High School work in botany. Dr. Benedict, formerly on the staff 
of the Bushwick High School, Brooklyn, has made large use of 
the Garden to supplement the regular work of the high-school 
classes in botany, and in his article speaks with warm appreciation 
of the advantages available at the Garden. 
The appended report of the curator of public instruction notes 
that nearly one thousand petri dishes and test tubes filled with 
