VIVISECTION.
Ere THE EDITOP. OF TliE " SPECTATOR,1
am glad to apologise to Miss Cobbe for having inadvert- ently misstated her argument, as published. But that 1 am not answerable for " exaggeration " in attributing to her the argument in question seems evident, not only because, if it is "the obvious truth that Vivisection has been and must be the same thing all the world over," it necessarily follows that whatever atrocities can be shown to occur in foreign la.boratoriee "may not unreasonably be expected to occur in any physio- logical laboratory ;" but in the very letter which Miss Cobbc. addresses to you, she says, "If I had suggested that the very worst Continental cruelties might possibly go on in the very laboratory over which Dr. Burdou-Sanderson and Mr. Romance are the presiding spirits, should I have had no justification for such a suspicion ?" To plead, as a "justification foz such a suspicion," the fact which is pleaded (viz., that Dr. Sanderson and myself subscribed to the Claude-Bernard memorial), is surely a more "remarkable feat in logic" than anything that I attributed, or should have dared to attribute, to this kind-hearted lady.
When such inferences are drawn from such facts, one can better appreciate the sources of the "exaggerations" of which I complained. But as I think it is useless to discuss the subject further in this fragmentary fashion, I shall here bring my part in the correspondence to a close.—I am, Sir, &O.,
GEORGE J. ROSIANES.
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