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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XL No. 283. 



2- 9. Medicine. 



2- 9. Dermatology. 



5- -. Blind. 



6- 8. Deaf Mutes. 

 6- 8. Anti-Slavery. 

 6- 9. Housing. 



. Bed Cross. 



6-11. Colonial. 



6-11. Mathematics. 



6-11. Physics. 



6-11. Technical and Industrial Education. 



8-14. Dentistry. 



9-15. Stenography. 



9-11. Educational Press. 



10-17. Hygiene and Demography. 



10-18. Bibliography. 



12-14. Alpinists. 



12-15. Hypnotism. 



16-28. Geology. 



18-25. Electricity. 



20-25. Anthropology and Prehistoric Archie- 



ology. 



22-25. Psychology. 

 25-Sept. 1. Ethnography. 



27-31. Economic and Commercial Geogra- 

 ptiy- 



29-Sept. 1. Teaching'of 'Art. 

 29-Sept. 1. Teaching of Design. 

 29-Sept. 1. Teaching of Drawing. 

 30-Sept. 6. Physical Education. 

 September. Gold and Silver. 



2-8 Ethnographical Sciences. 

 3-5. Basque Studies. 

 3-8. History of Religions. 

 5-8. Women's Eights. 

 6-9. Social Education. 

 10-12. Apiculture 

 10-12. Fruit Culture. 

 10-12. Folklore. 

 10-13. Popular Education. 

 14-19. Aqniculture and Fishery. 

 15-23. Railroads. 

 17-21. Americanists. 

 24-29. Fisheries. 

 25-28. Sunday Rest. 

 29-6. Peace. 

 October. 1-3. Maritime Law. 

 1-7. Botany. 



Fireman (oflScers). 

 Medical Press. 



Thread Numbering (textile). 

 Tramways (street railways). 



ANTI-VIVISECTION LEGISLATION. 



The following letter from President Eliot of 

 Harvard University to the Hon. James Mc- 

 Millan, Chairman of the Senate Committee of 

 the District of Columbia, is printed in the medi- 

 cal journals : 



Haevard Univeesity, 



Cambridge, March 19, 1900. 

 Dear Sir : — I observe that a new bill on the 

 subject of vivisection has been introduced into 

 the Senate, Bill No. 34. This bill is a slight 

 improvement on its predecessor, but is still 

 very objectionable. I beg leave to state very 

 briefly the objection to all such legislation. 



1. To interfere with or retard the progress of 

 medical discovery is an inhuman thing. Within 

 fifteen years medical research has made rapid 

 progress, almost exclusively through the use of 

 the lower animals, and what such research has 

 done for the diagnosis and treatment of diph- 

 theria it can probably do in time for tubercu- 

 losis, erysipelas, cerebro-spinal meningitis, and 

 cancer, to name only four horrible scourges of 

 mankind, which are known to be of germ 

 origin. 



2. The human race makes use of animals 

 without the smallest compunctions as articles 

 of food and as laborers. It kills them, con- 

 fines them, gelds them, and interferes in all 

 manner of ways with their natural lives. The 

 liberty we take with the animal creation in 

 using utterly insignificant members of them for 

 scientific researches is infinitesimal compared 

 with the other liberties we take with animals, 

 and it is that use of animals from which the 

 human race has most to hope. 



3. The few medical investigators can not, 

 probably, be supervised or inspected or con- 

 trolled by any of the ordinary processes of Gov- 

 ernment supervision. Neither can they prop- 

 erly be licensed, because there is no competent 

 supervising or licensing body. The Govern- 

 ment may properly license a plumber, because 

 it can provide the proper examination boards 

 for plumbers ; it can properly license young 

 men to practice medicine, because it can pro- 

 vide the proper examination boards for that 

 profession, and these boards can testify to the 

 fitness of candidates, but the Government can 



