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any rate in such force as to lead to the uninhibitable impulse; 1. e., 
the second act was inspired or ‘ suggested’ by your notice. Such 
at least is the clear teaching of the theory of the absence of free 
will under which I am living. 
“ By hypothesis a better example would be a girdled tree which 
(by the aid of a piece of inserted bark) was permitted to survive. 
‘Girdling a tree really isn’t so important and fatal a matter as you 
think,’ would be the notice (if any) that this would give; and 
that idea would do away with the impulse.” 
By invitation of the Garden, the Brooklyn Aquarium Society 
has recently installed in our conservatories four balanced aquaria, 
for the purpose of demonstrating the relation between aquatic 
flora and fauna. This is a very instructive as well as attractive 
exhibit. 

We learn from The Botanical Journal, the official organ of the 
Royal Botanic Society of London, that on October 6, 1913, an 
open-air school was started at the Garden, under the direction of 
Miss Margaret Nuth. The objects of this school are to give the 
children the best of health, as well as the best of education. 
There are fourteen in attendance, mostly the children of physi- 
cians and surgeons. The school is not confined to the children of 
medical parents, but is open to the children of all members of the 
Royal Botanic Society who present a clean bill of health. “No 
unhealthy child is admitted, the idea being to prevent all troubles, 
not to patch up cripples.” All lessons are held in the open, except 
during rain or fog or a temperature below 40° Fahrenheit. The 
following remark is quoted from one of the pupils: “I don’t 
know how children can learn indoors. We stand by the lake and 
learn all about the capes and bays, the peninsulas and promon- 
tories and islands; but in a room they cannot do that, can they?” 
The teachers in the schools of Brooklyn are reminded that the 
grounds of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are rich in opportuni- 
ties for out-of-door lessons in geography and other subjects, as 
well as in botany, and classes are cordially welcome for field study 
in any subject. 
e island in the lake at the Royal Botanic Society’s Gardens, 
for many years a place neglected, has, by vote of the Council, been 

