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two persons may be charged with cruelty to animals. 

 One has impaled a frog, and suffered the creature to 

 writhe about in that condition for hours ; the other 

 has pained the animal no more than one of us would 

 be pained by tying strings round his fingers and keep- 

 ing him in the position of a hydropathic patient. The 

 first offender says, ' I did it because I find fishing 

 very amusing,' and the magistrate bids him depart in 

 peace - - nay, probably wishes him good sport. The 

 second pleads, ' I wanted to impress a scientific truth 

 with a distinctness attainable in no other way on the 

 minds of my scholars;' and the magistrate fines him 

 five pounds. 



" I cannot but think that this is an anomalous and 

 not wholly creditable state of things." 



(p. 463.) "When the course of instruction in 

 physiology here was commenced, the question of 

 giving experimental demonstrations became a matter 

 of anxious consideration with me. It was clear that, 

 without such demonstrations, the subject could not be 

 properly taught. It was no less clear from what had 

 happened to me when, as president of the British As- 

 sociation, I had defended Brown Sequard, that I might 

 expect to meet with every description of abuse and 

 misrepresentation if such demonstration were given. 



" It did not appear to me, however, that the latter 

 consideration ought to weigh with me, and I took such 

 a course as I believe is defensible against everything 

 but misrepresentation. 



" 1 gave strict instructions to the demonstrators 

 who assisted me that no such experiments were to be 

 performed, unless the animal were previously rendered 

 insensible to pain either by destruction of the brain or 

 by the administration of anesthetics, and I have every 

 reason to believe that my instructions were carried 



