| Description | Cutting [from a newspaper?] which reads as follows: 'The Council of the Royal Society, understanding that the Government have under consideration the making of an enquiry into the conditions under which experiments upon animals are carried on in this country, would urge upon His Majesty's Government the importance to science and medicine of making any such enquiry as comprehensive and exhaustive as possible, and would express the hope that the contemplated enquiry may take the form of a Royal Commission with full power of taking evidence, as it is now thirty years since a Royal Commission reported on the subject.' |