The following, which is a translation of part of a
letter just received from a French lady in Paris, shows us what might now be going on in London, but for Mr. Cross's Vivisection Act:- " The Sorbonne is opposite my apartment, and in the little' wooden buildings which I see from my windows are kept the poor dogs on which vivisection is practised on the return of the medical students. Since the 5th of November I cannot rest day or night. The poor beasts, martyred every morning by Messieurs les Etudiants, undergo horrible agonies, and nobody in' mp quarter utters a protestation. Everybody in the neighbour- hood, and in this town, laughs, sings, dances, eats and drinks, and sleeps, notwithstanding the heartrending cries of the poor animals. The children make fun of them (les enfants s'en amusent) and when I express my pain every one shrugs his shoulders. These sacrifices will continue to the 10th of August, and it is the same every year from the 5th of November to the. 10th of August, and not a single soul moved with compassion ." No one who knows the kind of physiological experiments detailed in Claude Bernard's books can read of these things without a shudder. And we are by no means safe as yet from the anger of the party which opposed the Vivisection Act, and would do all in their power to obtain its repeal. The Society for the Protection of Animals liable to Vivisection has still plenty of work cut out for it, and well deserves the cordial support and aid of the public.
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