8 MEMOIR OF ALFRED SMEE. [CHAP. j. 



not to be permitted to step in to stop experiments which are 

 needful to be made, in order to obtain knowledge by which the 

 sufferings of the human race may be relieved ; at the same time 

 those experiments should be conducted in such a manner as to 

 cause as little suffering to the poor beast as it is practicable. 

 The best plan to prevent wanton cruelty to animals is to bring 

 up children from their tender years to love all the lower creatures, 

 and to teach them that God has made them all, and has implanted 

 into them feelings, curious instincts, and to a certain extent 

 reason. 



When a boy my father made a fair collection of insects, and a 

 collection of birds' eggs, both of which still exist. He also made 

 a collection of what fossils his limited resources could procure. 

 These are dispersed, but by the catalogue of them, which he 

 neatly wrote in a book, there seem to have been some interesting 

 specimens among them. In this book the names are given, the 

 stratum each specimen was found in, the locality, and whether 

 found by himself, or how otherwise procured. 



