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case, be considered as a petition for this bill, tor nothing is 

 said about any bill in it. 



The questions sent out were not to be answered so as to 

 show the position of many men who support us in our con- 

 tention in this matter and to my personal knowledge were 

 not answered at all by many who take a vital interest in the 

 question for the very reason that they felt that any an- 

 swer they could make would be liable to misinterpretation. 



The results, as given, were that six hundred and thirty- 

 eight answers were received out of one thousand, six hun- 

 dred and fifteen requests for information sent out. They 

 were tabulated as follows : eighty-five opposed to all 

 vivisection ; one hundred and thirty-four favorable to it, 

 restricted by law, if without pain; two hundred and 

 forty-six favorable to it, restricted by law, if for new and 

 useful discovery ; sixty-one thought it might be tolerated ; 

 and one hundred and twelve favored unrestricted vivi- 

 section. So that it appears that five hundred and fifty- 

 three out of six hundred and thirty-eight physicians would 

 permit the practice in some form and yet the object 

 of the petitioners is the complete abolition of the prac- 

 tice, as has been testified here many times. 



In closing his case, counsel for the petitioners read 

 many extracts from the opinions of Sir Thomas Watson, 

 Surgeon General Sir Charles Gordon, Dr. Charles Bell 



Taylor, Dr. F. S. Arnold, and Dr. Edward (name not 



understood) ; but these were not read from the original 

 sources, but as quotations from a leaflet, " Medical opinions 

 on Vivisection," published by the New England Anti- 

 vivisection Society, and with no possibility of verifying 

 the statements. This we object to as vigorously and with 

 as good reason as does Dr. Keene in his letter (submitted 

 herewith), and as may be illustrated by the instance of the 

 alleged advertisement for one thousand cats said to have 

 been issued earlier in the year by Harvard College. I 



