There are many problems to be solved in the working 

 out of the details in the three lines of extension proposed 

 above, but if the general policy meets with your approval, 

 I should like to carry my investigations further and submit 

 detailed plans to you. 



Very truly yours, 



George H. Sherwood 



Curator 



The plans for the proposed extension received the hearty 

 support of President Osborn and he presented them to the 

 Trustees at their meeting of May 4, 1914. 



The Trustees felt that it was very desirable to undertake 

 this work, but that, in view of what they were already doing for 

 education without expense to the City, they could not provide 

 the necessary funds for carrying out the proposed extension. 

 They finally adopted the following resolution : 



"RESOLVED, That the Board approves the 

 general project embodied in Mr. Sherwood's report, 

 if the same can be carried out without expense to this 

 institution. 



"RESOLVED, That a Committee of Two be ap- 

 pointed by the President to take steps to carry out the 

 project, if it can be accomplished." 



Pursuant to this action of the Trustees, President Osborn 

 appointed the following Committee to consider the details of 

 the plans proposed: 



Felix M. Warburg/ r „ ., . 



_ _ , „ - / rustee Members 



R. Fulton Cutting^ 



George H. Sherwood / ., , . , , 



[Faculty Members 

 C.-E. A. Winslow \ 



Meanwhile the Department of Public Education of the 

 Museum arranged a course of three lectures, one on forestry, 

 one on local birds and another on the Panama Canal, to be 

 given as an experiment at Public School No. 64, 350 East 

 10th Street, and at the Washington Irving High School, East 



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