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presentation that valuable discoveries for the life 

 and health of man would thereby be made. That 

 ample time has passed since the granting of the said 

 licenses for such alleged discoveries to have been 

 made. Your petitioner therefore prays that a return 

 of the number of such discoveries be forthwith 

 demanded of each and every of those to whom 

 such licenses were granted ; and that in the mean- 

 time such licenses be absolutely suspended, and be 

 considered as withdrawn and revoked. 

 " And your petitioner will ever pray. 



" F. O. MORRIS, B.A., J.P." 



Among the many columns, not to say pages, that 

 he penned to the public journals on this harrowing 

 question was a series of contributions to one of the 

 London papers which he styled " Collectanea for a 

 Bill of Indictment at the Bar of Public Opinion against 

 the Perpetrators of Experiments on Living Animals." 

 In these he quoted the opinions of many eminent men 

 upon the subject, together with his own views, which 

 he expressed in feeling terms. To plead for the weak 

 against the strong was in this connection a religious 

 duty, from which nothing could make him swerve. 

 Said he at the outset : " I have heard a voice from 

 above to every one that will hear it 'Open thy 

 mouth for the dumb ; ' and it is a voice of the Great 

 Judge of Him who has said for all such crimes, 

 1 Shall I not visit for these things ? ' Yes ; but would 

 that the plaintiffs in this case could speak and plead 

 for themselves ! Could they but do so, their heart- 



