GEORGE HODGES 



DEAN, EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, 



MASSACHUSETTS 



MY DEAR DR. ERNST, - - The two points which I tried to 

 make were that the bill is - 

 I. Unnecessary. 



II. Obstructive. 

 It is unnecessary on account of the existence of other and 



sufficient legislation. 

 It is obstructive : 



1. To the student of medicine; because it (i) forbids 

 his attendance as an onlooker at experiments, and (2) it 

 forbids his taking part in experiments to demonstrate 

 known truths. Thus it deprives him of that best aid to 

 knowledge, the aid of actual experience. Medicine taught 

 by book would be like navigation taught by book. 



2. To the student of biology; because the bill shuts 

 him out altogether. 



In general the point was made that experiments upon 

 living creatures must be carried on, --if not with animals, 

 then with our children ; also that the bill implies that the 

 professors in our two greatest institutions of learning are 

 not to be trusted. 



Faithfully yours, 



GEORGE HODGES. 



