29 SEPTEMBER 1883, Page 14

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

PROFESSOR RAY LANKESTER.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

£4114—Should you have the courtesy to insert this letter in your journal, your readers will perceive that your facetious note of this date, relative to my address to the British Association, fails in application. Discoveries in science are not, as a rule, made by hungry, rather than by well-paid men. I took some pains to show that they are made either by the possessors of private fortunes, or by the holders of salaried posts specially designed for the production of such results. Accordingly, your reference to experiments on starving dogs—imaginary experi- ments, which it is not my business either to condemn or to justify—is altogether beside the mark.—I am, Sir, &c.,