continuously out of a bag, the process being of much longer duration,
the phenomena can be studied with greater facility."

After this, is it "ill-natured or ill-mannered" to think that parents
will _not_ be fortunate if "their children fall under the elevating
influence of Dr. Sanderson's scientific and personal character"?

We want to know how medicine is advanced by the agonies of these
suffocated animals?

It may be true that Professor Sanderson at present holds no
certificate, nor does Dr. Michael Foster, who occupies a similar
position at Cambridge, but Dr. Michael Foster has "assistants" who
hold from time to time certificates, and quite lately, "under his
guidance," a lady, Miss Emily Nunn, has been poisoning frogs till
their skin comes off. There is nothing to prevent Professor
Sanderson from employing assistants. The mind may be the mind of
Professor Sanderson, but the knife may be the knife of such a man as
Dr. Klein, who was his former assistant at the Brown Institution, and
who has publicly declared that "he has no regard at all for the
sufferings of the animals."

Your obedient servant,
STEPHEN COLERIDGE.

12 OVINGTON GARDENS, LONDON,
_March_ 13_th_, 1885.

On the publication of this letter the Dean of Christ Church of that day,
Dean Liddell, wrote to me a long rambling letter which I could not then,
and cannot now, publish because it concludes with these words:--

I have written this not for publication. I will not engage in
newspaper controversy. I write to you, out of respect for the name
you bear,--not in anger but in sorrow.

To this I replied:

To my letter in the Press you have no word to offer. In it I quote
verbatim Professor Sanderson's own description of one of the many
wanton torments that he has inflicted upon the good creatures of God.
I ask how medicine is advanced by the agonies of the dogs he has
slowly suffocated, and I get no answer (though I have sent the letter
to him and some twenty other vivisectors) but this expression from
you of sorrow that the name I bear should be ranged on the side of
this man's opponents.

Sir, I am a young man, unskilled in polemics and unpractised in the
art of advocacy, no match for one of mature age, ri