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that he should regard any interference with experimental* 
vivisection as a great misfortune to Science. He is there- 
fore treated to four pages of irrelevant personality. Our 
author writes : “ Prof. Tyndall decided a few years ago, at 
the age of 57, to enter into the holy estate of matrimony. 
The sacrifice ( opfer ) of his ardent affeCtion was a Lady 
Hamilton, a wealthy lady belonging to the highest English 
aristocracy. I cannot say with certainty whether the happy 
or unhappy spouse of Tyndall belongs to that eccentric 
family of Hamiltons from which the hereditary Prince Albert 
of Monaco selected a wife, from whom he is now being 
divorced.” The Monaco scandal is then given in detail in a 
note, and the author proceeds to quote a letter which Prof. 
Tyndall is said to have written during his courtship, as a 
model for “ Darwinians and Materialists.” We must here 
ask---Is this scientific criticism ? Is it in any way relevant 
to vivisection ? Is it worthy of an author of Prof. Zollner’s 
merit ? This style of controversy is the more to be regretted 
since he appears highly indignant at any personalities on the 
part of his opponents. What, again, shall we say of the 
following passage ? — “ At that time Berlin, the learned and 
cultivated, was so completely chloroformised by the fcetor 
Judaicus that it listened as devoutly to the Hebrew melodies 
of the lyric poet Heine, and to the oracles of the naturalist 
Alexander von Humboldt, as it now does to the songs of 
Rudolf Lowenstein and the theories of the academicians 
Virchow and E. du Bois-Reymond.” Humboldt died before 
the vivisection question broke out, but he is repeatedly 
made here the objeCt of unfriendly remarks. Prof. Zollner 
seems to have many enemies, living and dead, and he may 
have the best causes for his enmity. But what light do all 
these disputes and grudges throw upon the subject in hand ? 
Do they prove vivisection wrong ? Do they mark out the 
limits, if any, within which it ought to be tolerated ? An 
interesting and instructive faCt here mentioned might well 
be taken to heart by English biologists, in view of the 
restrictions under which they already labour and of the 
further attacks with which they are menaced. The medical 
faculties of the following universities have formally protested 
against the anti-viviseCIion agitation : — Bale, Bern, Bonn, 
Dorpat, Erlangen, Freiburg, Graetz, Greifswalde, Halle, 
Heidelberg, Kiel, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Marburg, Munich, 
Prague, Vienna, and Zurich. Could no similar expression 
of qualified opinion be produced in the United Kingdom? 
* We call attention to the word “ experimental.” Prof. Tyndall does not 
appear to have advocated vivisection for mere demonstration. 
