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Centers, to provide lectures in various branches of natural 

 science for children who cannot afford to visit the Museum; 

 second, the inauguration of a System of Loaning Lantern 

 Slides to enable teachers to give visual instruction in their 

 own class rooms; third, the opening of a Branch Teaching 

 Museum in the Washington Irving High School, as an experi- 

 ment to be carried out in other schools as soon as the means 

 would warrant. These plans were authorized by the Trustees, 

 provided they could be carried out without further expense to 

 the institution. Pursuant to the resolution of the Board, the 

 President appointed a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Felix 

 M. Warburg and R. Fulton Cutting as Trustee members, and 

 Messrs. George H. Sherwood and Charles-Edward Amory 

 Winslow as Faculty members, to consider the details of the 

 plan and the methods of carrying it out. The President 

 laid the matter before President Thomas W. Churchill of 

 the Board of Education, who became deeply interested and 

 appointed a special Committee consisting of Mr. Frank D. 

 Wilsey, Dr. Ira S. Wile and Mr. Francis P. Cunnion, to con- 

 sider the proposal and confer with the Committee of the 

 American Museum. Finally, the Museum made a definite 

 proposition to the Board of Education to establish, for the 

 sum of $8,000, ten Local Lecture Centers (shown on the 

 educational extension map), to inaugurate a System of Loan- 

 ing Lantern Slides and to establish a Branch Museum in 

 the Washington Irving High School. This proposition was 

 recommended by the Board of Education to the Board of 

 Estimate, and when the budget was finally acted upon, pro- 

 vision was made for one feature of the proposal, namely, the 

 Loaning of Lantern Slides to the teachers. It was not deemed 

 permissible to provide an additional sum under the law restrict- 

 ing the amount provided for maintenance. Consequently a 

 new law is being formulated which will give the Mayor and 

 the Board of Estimate and Apportionment the authority to 

 vote such additional sum to the Museum as they may deem 

 expedient, particularly for purposes of extension of public 

 education to the schools. A more complete account of the 

 history and present status of Museum instruction and the 

 proposed extension to the schools of Greater New York in 



