THE
Vivisectors’ Directory;
BEING A LIST OF THE
LICENSED VIVISECTORS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,
TOGETHER WITH THE
LEADING PHYSIOLOGISTS IN FOREIGN LABORATORIES.
COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
Edited by
BENJAMIN BRYAN,
WITH A PREFACE BY
FRANCES POWER COBBE.
LONDON:
Published by the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection,
UNITED WITH THE
International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection.
1884.
Price, 1s. 6d.; Cloth, 2s.
London:
Printed by PEWTRESS & Co.,
Steam Printing Works,
28, Little Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C.
It was reported at the time of the Franco-German war thatthe Prussian soldiers profited much by their general acquaintancewith the geography of France, and by the possession ofconvenient pocket maps furnished to them of the invadeddistricts.
To supply the combatants in the Anti-Vivisection Crusadewith some such knowledge, and such cartes du pays of thephysiologists’ ground, was the original purpose of the Vivisectors’Directory, as prepared for The Zoophilist. It wasrecognised by those engaged in the thick of the fight againstscientific cruelty that it was impossible to retain in thememory the names of all, even of the most notorious Vivisectors,or to attach to them their particular class of experiments;nor, in the case of English physiologists, was it practicableto recall without continual reference to the whole seriesof Parliamentary Returns what were the Licenses andCertificates wherewith they have been annually provided. Thesefacts,—so often needed in controversy,—it was proposedto marshal in the compendious form of a Directory, so thateach Zoophilist possessed of a copy should be enabledat a moment’s notice to tell in which province of the “dolorosoregno” of Research each Vivisector might be found, what werehis titles and address, and the books he had published;and (if he were a British subject) how many Licenses andCertificates he had received.
It is hoped that this original purpose of the Directoryhas been fairly fulfilled, and that Anti-vivisectionists will universallyfind it to be a very serviceable book of reference. It isnot pretended that it is a perfect work, that the names ofall the Vivisectors in Europe have been ascertained, or theirworst deeds always ferreted out. Great pains have beentaken to make the list thus complete, and several able agentshave been employed for the purpose abroad as well as at[iv]home, under the editor’s supervision. But years wouldhave been needed for the exhaustive completion of the task,and the publication would have been indefinitely delayed.As it now appears, the Directory presents (it is confidentlybelieved) a mass of reliable information in a convenient form,and at a moment when it is urgently needed for use in oursorrowful controversy.
But even while this first purpose of the Directory was beingpatiently carried out, it became obvious to those c