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PREFACE 



revised Part I. ; Mr Shattock, who revised Part 

 II. ; and Prof. Schafer. Certain valuable reports, 

 references, and illustrations, were contributed by 

 Mr R. H. Clarke, Mr Horsley, Dr Washbourn, 

 Dr Beevor, and Surgeon- Major Ross. 



1900. 



The name of Mr George Pernet was, by a stupid 

 oversight, omitted from the above list. His care- 

 ful researches into the history of the subject were 

 of the utmost value. 



In the present edition, some mistakes have 

 been corrected, and some recent facts have been 

 added. The first edition contained references to 

 a few of the innumerable false statements that are 

 made by the "Anti-vivisection" Societies. These 

 references have now been deleted : for these 

 Societies, quarrelling one with another, appealing 

 for funds, and unable to show any real result for 

 all the vast sums of money that have been 

 wasted on them, are best left to themselves. They 

 have no common policy, no appreciable influence 

 either on the Home Office, or in Parliament, or on 

 science, or on practice ; and they are going the 

 quickest way to lose their hold on the public 

 attention. They have failed to accomplish any- 

 thing important, either good or bad ; and there 

 is no need here to consider why they have failed. 



1902. 



