13 FEBRUARY 1875, Page 3

The opposition to Vivisection has at least begun to produce

some little result. At the Westminster Hospital on Tuesday, the Committee succeeded, after a hot discussion, in expunging from the prospectus of the Physiological School the paragraph in which the expectation is held out to students that they will have the oppportunity of experimenting for themselves on living animals. We are bound to say that, as far as we can learn, no such experi- ments have, as yet, ever been conducted by students. Still it is a step gained to purge the prospectus of the quasi-promise which it gave for the future.