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search, and the conducting of symposia on diseases of laboratory 
animals. 
We conduct about two such symposia a year, one at the American 
Veterinary Medical Association Annual Meeting, and the other at 
the Annual Meeting of the Animal Care Panel. 
The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine is con- 
vinced as a unit without any dissenting voice among the membership 
in the United States that the type of legislation proposed to regiment 
research workers is not a good type of legislation, it is not necessary. 
Thank you. 
Mr. Roberts. Thank you very much, Doctor. 
(The following letter was later received from Dr. Brewer:) 
The University of Chicago, 
Central Animal Quarters, 
Chicago, III., October 6, 1962. 
Re hearings on H.R. 1937 (Griffiths) and H.R. 3556 (Moulder), Friday, Sep- 
tember 28, 1962. 
Hon. Kenneth A. Roberts, 
Chairman, House Subcommittee on Health and Safety, Committee on Interstate 
and Foreign Commerce, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir : Permission is hereby requested to have the following testimony sub- 
mitted. I could not present it authoritatively at the time of the hearings because 
I was requested to keep my testimony within 5 minutes. 
As part of the hearings, Mr. Hume of the Universities Federation for Animal 
Welfare (UFAW) of Great Britain offered testimony that there appeared in the 
Encyclopaedia Britannica an article on animal experimentation, that said article 
was written by a member of the board of the National Society for Medical 
Research, that the article was false, and that Mr. Lane-Petter, now secretary 
of the Research Defence Society, had written to the editors of the Encylopaedia 
Britannica in protest. 
As author of the article in question I want to set the record straight by quot- 
ing from my authority for the statement given that was cited as an example of 
the falsity of article in the encyclopedia at the hearings. 
Quotation: “For and Against Experiments on Animals,” by Stephen Paget, 
F.R.C.S., honorary secretary, Research Defence Society, H. K. Lewis, 136 Gower 
Street, WC., London, 1912. Page 14 : 
“Though it is true that some experiments under certificate A involve pain, yet 
it seems hardly reasonable that inoculations should be represented to the public 
as ‘vivsection.’ For example, in 1908, no less than 12,500 observations were 
made for the Royal Commission on the Disposal of Sewage. Young fishes and 
fishes’ eggs were exposed to the influence of effluents in different stages of puri- 
fication and dilution. That is all that was done to them. Under the act, every 
one of these 12,500 observations had to be returned to the Home Office as an 
experiment performed on a living animal without anesthetics.” 
I have no quarrel with our British friends that the bill is now far more liber- 
ally interpreted. But, according to Dr. Paget, 12,500 observations had to be re- 
turned to the Home Office, and that fact cannot be labeled as “falsehood.” 
Thank you. 
Very truly yours, 
N. R. Brewer, D.V.M., Ph. D. 
Mr. Roberts. Mr. Fred L. Myers, executive director of the Humane 
Society of the United States. 
Mr. Myers. 
STATEMENT 0E FRED MYERS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE 
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 
Mr. Myers. Mr. Chairman, I have a prepared statement that I will 
refrain from reading, of course, at the chairman’s request, hoping that 
it may be, however, entered in this record. 
