HARRIS HAWTHORNE WILDER 



PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY, SMITH COLLEGE, 

 NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS 



MY DEAR PROFESSOR SEDGWICK, --I may not be in 

 time with this letter, as other things have intervened. 

 Scientific investigation is handicapped already in America 

 in almost every way by preposterous duties, .which attempt 

 to thrust inferior American instruments into our hands, 

 and which have attempted to render more difficult the 

 importation of foreign literature. In short I am at present 

 in such a hopeless condition concerning conditions here, 

 that I feel that signatures of scientists given in protest 

 of the present anti-vivisection bill will do little good. Still 

 I wish most emphatically to oppose the pending bill, and 

 feel that the ignorant and unscientific have no right to 

 attempt to direct scientific experiment either by legislation 

 or in any other way. 



Yours very truly, 



HARRIS H. WILDER. 



