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I quite agree with all you say about the utter needlessness of endowing 'research' into causes and modes of cure of tuberculosis, etc. and the certainty that the £62,500 per annum will be wasted and worse than wasted, on experiments on living animals. For some years past the proceedings of the Royal Society have been overloaded with descriptions of an endless variety of such 'researches', most of which do not even profess to have led to any definite or useful result; while they have certainly involved unknown cruelty to thousands of the higher animals.
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