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her 17; the Times of September 20, 21, and 23; the 

 Saturday Review of September 24; and Galignani's 

 Messenger of September 19, 20, and 21. 



T 7TV1 SECTION, --THE BEGINNING OF THE 

 V END. The HOME SECRETARY has RE- 

 FUSED CERTIFICATES to Professor Fraser, Dr. 

 Lauder Brunton, and Professor Lister, for carrying on 

 investigations which they declare to be of ' the highest 

 value to Medical Science.' 



"GEORGE R. JESSE, 



" Hon. Sec. &c., Society for the Abolition 

 of Vivisection. 



" Henbury, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, 

 " loth September, iSSi." 



This advertisement also contains the answer to Senator 

 Gallinger's request for information as to names of the dis- 

 tinguished scientists to whom licenses had been refused. 



Such is the history and the result of English law which 

 we are asked to imitate. That it is intended to, and actu- 

 ally does, interfere with research has been made clear, and 

 I refrain from multiplying evidence of its disastrous effect 

 upon English biological science. Its effect upon the 

 freedom of instruction is equally apparent. 



But does this law satisfy the anti-vivisectionists? By 

 no means. Let them speak for themselves : 



In an anti-vivisection pamphlet, entitled " Twelve Years' 

 Trial of the Vivisection Act, Has it stopped the scien- 

 tific torture of animals in England?" by M. R. C. S., 

 London, 1889, the English law is pronounced a failure. 



The Illinois Anti-vivisection Society prints the following 

 statement in its various publications : 



