[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Ste,—In your issue of
January 1st appears a letter drawing the attention of all Parliamentary candidates to the Research Defence Society, and suggesting that they should write for pamphlets to a certain address. As the vivisection question is not a political one, I feel sure that no impartial organ of the Press would issue this invitation on behalf of one society without conferring a similar favour upon its opponent, and I therefore beg to draw atten- tion to the work of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivi- section, and I suggest that Parliamentary candidates who may desire to acquaint themselves with facts concerning vivisection should write to me for pamphlets. Our honorary secretary being a highly qualified and practising medical man who is also a
Justice of the Peace, we are certainly entitled to hold the view that our pamphlets on medical subjects (such as the use of anti- toxin, &c.) are as worthy of study as those of the Research Defence Society, with which we strongly desire ours to be compared.
The Report of the Royal Commission, when it appears, will give the views of a body of man chosen almost entirely from the ranks of " Research Defenders," some of them licensed vivisectors; but since no medical anti-vivisectionist was allowed a seat upon it, and thus given an opportunity of cross-examining witnesses, it cannot hope to command the confidence of the public.—I am, Sir, &c., BEATRICE R. KIDD,
Secretary British Union for Abolition of Vivisection. 32 Charing Cross, S.W.
[We gladly accede to Miss Julia Wedgwood's request to hear the other side, and we feel sure that in choosing her letter from among several which have reached us we have that other side presented as powerfully and as persuasively as possible. We cannot, however, publish any more letters on this subject.—En. Spectator.]
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