i88i.]  VIVISECTION.  387

Allow  me  to  demur  to  your  calling  your  conjoint  article  a
"  symposium  "  strictly  a  "  drinking  party."  This  seems  to  me
very  bad  taste,  and  I  do  hope  every  one  of  you  will  avoid  any
semblance  of  a  joke  on  the  subject.  I  know  that  words,  like
a  joke,  on  this  subject  have  quite  disgusted  some  persons  not
at  all  inimical  to  physiology.  One  person  lamented  to  me
that  Mr.  Simon,  in  his  truly  admirable  Address  at  the  Medi-
cal Congress  (by  far  the  best  thing  which  I  have  read),  spoke
of  the  fantastic  sensuality  *  (or  some  such  term)  of  the  many
mistaken,  but  honest  men  and  women  who  are  half  mad  on
the  subject.  .  ..
[To  Dr.  Lauder  Brunton  my  father  wrote  in  February
1882  :—

**  Have  you  read  Mr.  [Edmund]  Gumey's  articles  in  the
*  Fortnightly  *  f  and  '  Cornhill  ?  '  J  They  seem  to  me  very
clever,  though  obscurely  written,  and  I  agree  with  almost
everything  he  says,  except  with  some  passages  which  appear
to  imply  that  no  experiments  should  be  tried  unless  some  im-
mediate good  can  be  predicted,  and  this  is  a  gigantic  mistake
contradicted  by  the  whole  history  of  science."]

♦  *  Transactions  of  the  International  Medical  Congress,*  188 1,  vol.  iv.
p.  413.  The  expression  "  lackadaisical "  (not  fantastic),  and  '*  feeble  sen-
suality," are  used  with  regard  to  the  feelings  of  the  anti-vivisectionists.
t  "  A  chapter  in  the  Ethics  of  Pain,"  *  Fortnightly  Review,*  1881,  voL
XXX.  p.  778.
\  "  An  Epilogue  on  Vivisection,"  *  Cornhill  Magazine,'  1882,  vol.  xlv.
p.  191.
CHAPTER  IX.
MISCELLANEA  {continued) — A  REVIVAL  OF  GEOLOGICAL  WORK
THE  BOOK  ON  EARTHWORMS — LIFE  OF  ERASMUS  DAR-
WIN— MISCELLANEOUS   LETTERS.
1876-1882.
