Resolutions Passed by the Council j i i 



Resolution on the Use of Dogs for Medical Experimentation 

 in the District of Columbia 



Adopted by the Council, December 31, 1930; Reaffirmed December 3:, 1934 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science, which has repeatedly 

 recorded its protest against the enactment of legislation prohihiting animal experimen- 

 tation for scientific and medical purposes, herehy protests against the passage of House 

 Bill 7884 in the present Congress prohibiting the use of dogs for medical experiments 

 in the District of Columbia. 



The circumstances under which this bill was favorably reported, as set forth in the 

 minority report, make abundantly clear that this bill should be recommitted to the 

 Committee on the District of Columbia for full and proper consideration by the mem- 

 bers and for adequate presentation of objections by opponents of the bill. 



This Association is in accord with the practically unanimous and often expressed 

 authoritative voice of science and medicine that animal experimentation has conferred 

 inestimable benefits upon mankind, as well as upon animals themselves, and is essential 

 to the progress of the biological and medical sciences. 



The history of medical discovery affords countless examples of the necessity for the 

 use of dogs in certain kinds of experiments, as may be illustrated by the experiments 

 leading to' the recent discoveries of insulin in the treatment of diabetes and of liver ex- 

 tract in the treatment of pernicious anaemia. 



The conditions under which animal experimentation is conducted in the government 

 and medical laboratories in the District of Columbia afford every safeguard against the 

 infliction of unnecessary suffering upon the animals. 



No legislation of the character proposed in this bill has ever been enacted in spite of 

 the efforts of antivivisectionists in this country and abroad for many years. 



This Association with a membership of over nineteen thousand, and representative of 

 all the sciences of nature and of man, is confident that if the members of Congress be- 

 come fully informed of the injury which would be inflicted upon the progress of cura- 

 tive and preventive medicine by such legislation, H. R. Bill 7884 will not receive their 

 favorable consideration. 



Resolution for the Continuance in the Department of 

 Agriculture of the Land Utilization Agencies 



Adopted by the Executive Committee by Authority of the Council, December 31, 193-I 



Resolved, By the American Association for the Advancement of Science, that any 

 reorganization of the United States Government agencies should provide for the con- 

 tinuance in the Department of Agriculture of the land utilization agencies now there, 

 including the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Forest Service, Biological Survey, and 

 the addition of such other agencies as have to do with the agricultural, forest, or range 

 use of the public domain or the protection thereof from erosion. 



Resolution on the United States Forest Service as a Part of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 



Adopted by the Executive Committee by Authority of the Council, December 31, 193 / 



