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THE RESEARCH DEFENCE SOCIETY 
■“THE Research Defence Society, founded 
* by Stephen Paget, F.R.C.S., in January, 
1908, exists to make known the facts about 
experimental research involving the use of 
animals, and the conditions and regulations 
under which animal experiments are con- 
ducted in the United Kingdom ; to empha- 
size the importance of such experiments to 
the welfare of mankind and animals and the 
great saving of human and animal life and 
health and the prevention of suffering already 
due to them ; to defend research workers in 
the medical, veterinary and biological sciences 
againt attacks by anti-vivisectionists ; and 
to help workers in drawing up their applica- 
tions to the Home Secretary for the licence 
and certificates needed for the proper conduct 
of experiments on animals. 
Membership is open to all — lay, medical or 
scientific — who are interested in forwarding 
the Society’s objects. Subscriptions are as 
follows : Life Membership, £5 5s. ; Full 
Membership, 10s. per annum ; Student 
Membership*, 5s. per annum. 
* Persons working for degrees or diplomas in any of 
the medical, veterinary or allied sciences. 
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