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in the annex ; and indeed primarily in the Garden around, 

 with which we may therefore best begin. Here sensitive 

 and other moving plants preponderate, like twiners and 

 climbers, which cover a long and shady pergola ready to 

 serve as a college cloister with its ' Philosophers' Way.' 

 The nearer ground is laid out with pleasant lawns, fountain 

 and tank for water-plants, and a group of trees, some old 

 inmates of the Garden, others lately transplanted hither, 

 at full size, under anaesthetics. Under these trees is a 

 variety of apparatus, and above is perched an open platform 

 for observation and thought by turns, since this alternation 

 of keen outlook and meditative interpretation is the very 

 process of science, the rhythm of its intellectual life. 



From these and other beginnings of the Bio-physical 

 Garden we enter the Laboratories. Here beyond the small 

 marble entrance porch, again kept free for observation and 

 meditation, are glass-houses white, red and blue -for the 

 study of the growth and behaviour of plants under light 

 from opposite ends of the spectrum, as compared with 

 normal conditions. Beyond are the larger laboratories 

 electrical, chemical, mechanical, microscopical, and 

 physiological. 



Having thus broadly surveyed the new Institute, and 

 seen, or foreseen, something of its working, we may now 

 enter the great Lecture Hall, which is seated for some 1500 

 auditors. Here the inauguration of the Institute took 

 place, and courses of lectures by the Director and others 

 are regularly given embodying the main results of the work 

 of the Institute. 



As the laboratories and grounds of the Institute afford 

 various departures from conventional design, so too does 

 this Hall, perhaps as yet the very best of environments 

 for scientific exposition. It is of simple, efficient and 

 beautiful plan, in which a large audience can at once see 

 and hear without the visual interruption and the acoustic 

 defects too common in auditoria designed without the 

 collaboration of the physicist. Its purpose is neither 



