A Memorial, signed by a great number of the most
eminent men of the day in all spheres and professions of life, was pre- sented on Monday to the Committee of the " Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals," to urge immediate steps for the restriction of the growing practice of vivisection. Amongst the signatures were those of Lord Selborne, Lord Coleridge, the Archbishop of York, Lord Russell, Lord Cardwell, Lord Carling- ford, the Archbishop of Westminster, the Bishop of Man- chester, the Bishop of Exeter, and of a number of other dis- tinguished peers and prelates ; also those of a great many eminent judges and lawyers, like Sir William Earle, Sir John Coleridge, Baron Amphlett, and many others ; of a great number of Members of the House of Commons of both parties, like Mr. Bright, Mr. Bereaford Hope, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Trevelyan, Sir Henry Holland, Sir H. Selwyn Ibbetson ; of a great many distinguished soldiers and sailors, like Sir Hope Grant, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Sir Richard Airey, Colonel Evelyn Wood, Admiral Parker, Admiral Sir H. Smith ; of many persons high in administrative office, like that of Colonel Henderson, the Chief Commissioner of Police ; of many eminent literary men, like the Poet-Laureate, Mr. Robert Browning, Sir Henry Taylor, Sir Arthur Helps, Professor Jowett, Mr. Martineau, Dr. Blackie, Mr. Leslie Stephen, and many others ; of a considerable number of medical men, some very eminent, like Sir William Fergusson, Dr. Cotton (senior physician to the Brompton Hospital), Mr. Bader (the great oculist), and others,—of medical men some sixty in all ; and last, not least, of a number of distinguished women, Lady Strangford, Lady Waldegrave, Lady Wood, and at the core of the whole movement,—to her great and lasting honour,— Miss Cobbe.
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