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raised whether he is so efficient a marksman as to kill out- 
right and not maim the birds he fires at. Surely to give all 
these classes of people full scope for action in their dealings 
with animals, and to single out the medical profession for 
inspection and “ certificates ” is a gross insult. Yet, ac- 
cording to Mr. Dolan, the perpetuation of this insult is “ all 
we ask for ” ! 
2nd. If certificates for experimentation are to be granted 
only to those who are “ tried and trusted,” the young, and 
those who have not already earned a sufficiently high reputa- 
tion, will find themselves necessarily excluded. This will 
prove a most unfortunate restriction for the advancement of 
Physiology. It is universally conceded that the mind is 
most suggestive — most fruitful in novel ideas — in the earlier 
portion of life. If a biologist is to be debarred from working 
out and testing his ideas experimentally till he is a man of 
established reputation, very much important work will per- 
force remain undone. What would be the position of 
chemistry or of physics if the student must obtain a certifi- 
cate before entering upon original research ? 
3rd. Unless we misunderstand him, Mr. Dolan completely 
ignores non-medical biologists. There are numbers of sci- 
entific men who in their researches into the phenomena of 
organic life-— especially among the lower animals — find it 
necessary to have recourse to experiments which a senti- 
mentalist might think fit to proclaim as painful. True such 
inquiries are often beyond the grasp of the present Vivisec- 
tion ACt, which does not include the Invertebrata in its 
provisions, but our fanatical party are clamorous for its 
extension. Chemists, also, in toxicological cases before the 
passing of the Adi, often found it useful to administer some 
substance isolated from the hndy of a poisoned person to an 
animal, as a proof of its nature. Thus the most sensitive 
test for strychnine is a frog. But in England this test is no 
longer available. There is no time to wait for the various 
formalities, and no certainty that when all have been duly 
gone through the license will be granted. 
Mr. Dolan’s line of aCtion, in confining his remarks to the 
needs of medical men, is the more strange since no small 
part of his ledlure is devoted to an exposition of the re- 
searches of M. Pasteur. Now M. Pasteur is no surgeon, no 
medical practitioner. He is a chemist, formerly a pupil and 
assistant of Prof. Dumas, and when he first attacked the 
silkworm disease it was objected to him that he was no 
physiologist. Yet his experiments on the propagation of 
zymotic disease and on its counteraction have required 
