210 MISCELLANEA. [1875. 



Allow me to demur to your calling your conjoint article a 

 " symposium " strictly a " drinking party." This seems to me 

 very bad taste, and I do hope every one of you will avoid any 

 semblance of a joke on the subject. I knoiu that words, like 

 a joke, on this subject have quite disgusted some persons not 

 at all inimical to physiology. One person lamented to me 

 that Mr. Simon, in his truly admirable Address at the Medical 

 Congress (by far the best thing which I have read), spoke of 

 the fantastic sensuality* (or some such term) of the many 

 mistaken, but honest men and women who are half mad on 

 the subject. . . . 



[To Dr. Lauder Brunton my father wrote in February 

 1882 :— 



"Have you read Mr. [Edmund] Gurney's articles in the * Fort- 

 nightly' f and ' Cornhill ' ? % They seem to me very clever, 

 though obscurely written, and I agree with almost everything 

 he says, except with some passages which appear to imply that 

 no experiments should be tried unless some immediate good 

 can be predicted, and this is a gigantic mistake contradicted 

 by the whole history of science."] 



* 'Transactions of the Interna- f "A chapter in the Ethics of 



tional Medical Congress,' 1881, vol. Pain," ' Fortnightly Review,' 1881, 



iv. p. 413. The expression " lacka- vol. xxx. p. 778. 



daisical " (not fantastic) , and % " An Epilogue on Vivisection," 



"feeble sensuality," are used with ' Cornhill Magazine,' 1882, vol. xlv. 



regard to the feelings of the anti- p. 191. 

 vivisectionists. 



