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Among the questions that more immediately affect such in- 
stitutions as our own and other botanical gardens, the zoological 
pie and the various city museums, were the following: 
. How can the maximum cooperation be developed in using 
ee parks for educational purposes? 
2. Is it practicable for high school teachers with their classes 
to use the laboratories and grounds of botanical gardens for 
regular class exercises? 
3. What helpfulness is available in scientific bodies and uni- 
versities ? 
4. Should adequate and inexpensive transportation of school 
children to museums and zoological parks be provided? 
5. Should the city support school gardens? 
6. How should nature material demanded by the course of 
study be supplied? 
7. Will the service of the Public Education Association as 
a central clearing house for outside cooperation with public 
schools be welcomed by public and private agencies and by school 
officials ? 
The discussion was opened by President Egerton L,. Winthrop, 
Jr., of the Board of Education, who urged the desirability of 
effecting a closer and better regulated cooperation between the 
educational interests of the city. Although the subsequent speak- 
ers were, for the most part, limited to five minutes each, there 
was not sufficient time to permit of the discussion of all the 
questions proposed . 
Of the seven questions indicated above only the fourth and 
seventh were discussed. Mr. George H. Sherwood, Curator of 
the Department of Public Education of the American Museum 
of Natural History, was asked to speak on the fourth question. 
He referred to the very large number of school children visiting 
that museum in classes with their teachers, but stated that this 
attendance had considerably and very noticeably diminished since 
the street railway company had done away with the former sys- 
tem of transfers. Mr. Sherwood raised the question of the possi- 
bility of making some arrangement whereby special tickets at 
reduced fare might be issued to school children, to be used be- 
tween certain hours of the day for trips to and from the museum. 
