Copy letter from Ernest Henry Starling, Honorary Secretary to the Committee of Societies, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society Informs the Royal Society that the Committee of Delegates from various London Societies are collecting the evidence to be laid before the Royal Commission on Vivisection [experimentation on animals]. Asks that the Royal Society appoint representatives to give scientific and medical evidence to this Commission, on 'the importance of experiments on animals, and of freedom of research for the advance of Science'. 16 October 1906