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1920. These committees have been making analyses of the different things 

 necessary to be done and the several kinds of preparation requisite therefor. 

 Is there not need for similar consideration of the problem of education in 

 forestry? 



In answer to a question as to what can be done at once to introduce forestry 

 into the schools, Dr. Claxton suggested that lesson leaflets should be prepared 

 and that a good place to begin was with the study of forest geography. If 

 the Federal Government would get out such a leaflet he thought that he 

 could induce most of the superintendents of State education to require its use. 



Mr. S. T. Dana, of the Forest Service, suggested that in this connection it 

 might be desirable to call a conference of superintendents of schools on for- 

 estry as a cultural and educational subject, in which might also be included the 

 presidents of universities and the deans of colleges. Dr. Claxton said that he 

 would be glad to consider this if the conference should ask for it. 



The discussion closed with the suggestion that the committee might well, in 

 its study of this question, recommend some form of cooperation between the 

 Bureau of Education and the Forest Service that would lead to the prepara- 

 tion of a manual on forestry for use in the public schools. 



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