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The Examination of a Witness. 
experience they would be able to approach the task imposed upon 
them with greater confidence. 
One more word: I would submit that it is undesirable that 
the study of Botany should be organised on the rigid lines of 
“ Infantry Training.” Teachers are not all alike either in their 
tastes or aptitudes. A teacher should have the courage of his con¬ 
victions and sense enough to profit by experience, but unless he 
follows the lines which he feels give the greatest scope to such 
powers as he possesses his teaching will become half-hearted and 
dull. 
T. F. W. M. No useful purpose is likely to be served by 
prolonging this examination: you may stand down. 
