256 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
The Darwin Memorial Statue. — On June 9th, H.R.H. the Prince of 
Wales, as Principal Trustee of the British Museum, attended at the 
Natural History Museum, South Kensington, for the purpose of accepting 
in his own name and that of his co-trustees a life-sized marble statue of the 
late Charles Darwin formally presented to the Natural History Department 
of the British Museum by Professor Huxley on behalf of the Darwin 
Memorial Committee. The execution of the statue was entrusted to Mr. 
Boehm, R.A., who, considering that he had never seen Mr. Darwin, has 
produced a really excellent likeness of the deceased naturalist in a seated 
position. It has been placed on the staircase at the end of the entrance- 
hall, on a brown stone pedestal, and bears the simple inscription, ‘Charles 
Darwin, born Feb. 12, 1809; died April 19, 1882.” In a brief address, 
previous to unveiling the statue, Professor Huxley intimated that, after 
deducting the cost of the statue from the amount collected by the Memorial 
Committee, the balance would be devoted to the furtherance of biological 
science, either by the foundation of studentships under the control of the 
Royal Society, or in some other way to be decided later. The Prince of 
Wales in reply said that the Committee and Subscribers to the Darwin 
Memorial Fund might be assured that the Trustees of the British Museum 
had willingly assigned a place of honour in the Hall of the Natural History 
Museum to the statue of an Englishman who had exerted so great an 
influence upon the progress of Zoology and Botany, the advancement of 
which sciences was the object of the vast collections now arranged there. 
Experiments on Living Animals.—In a return relating to experiments 
on living animals lately issued by the Home Office, Mr. Busk reports that 
49 persons held licences during 1884, and the total number of experiments 
of all kinds performed was about 44]. The animals operated upon were 
all rendered insensible during the experiments. Of 145 experiments 99 
consisted of simple inoculation with a morbid virus, in which no operation 
beyond the prick of a needle was required, and for which the administration 
of an anesthetic would only have entailed needless annoyance and distress 
to the animal. In these experiments any appreciable suffering would be 
felt only in those cases in which the inoculation took effect, involving about 
the same amount of pain as ensues on ordinary vaccination, for the brief 
period the animals were allowed to survive. Of such cases about 16 
occurred. Of the remaining 46 experiments under these certificates, 
24 were performed for the purpose of medico-legal inquiries in cases of 
suspected poisoning, resulting in the death by tetanus of 3 frogs and 6 mice, 
which survived, however, only a few minutes; 10 other cases under the 
same head were experiments on the infection of fish with a species of 
