COLONEL LOCKWOODI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the Report of the Professor of Pathology in Cambridge University, printed in The Cambridge University Reporter of the 25th of May, wherein it is stated that Professor Filehne of the University of Breslau carried on work there during the Lent and part of the Michaelmas Terms; whether that work, referred to as research work, involved experiments on living animals; whether he is aware that Professor Filehne has not been returned as having been licensed or certificated last year at Cambridge or elsewhere; whether he will state how many experiments the Professor made, and of what kind; and if there should have been a breach of the law who is responsible for it, and whether any proceedings will be taken in regard to it?
§ MR. ASQUITHThe answer to the first question is in the affirmative, but to the second that Professor Filehne did not himself perform any experiments on living animals, and it is consequently unnecessary to answer the remaining questions. Any such experiments involved in his researches were performed by duly licensed persons. I think I ought to add that the question suggests that a distinguished foreign man of science, when residing in this country as a guest, committed a breach of the law, and that his hosts connived at his doing so, and that it would be well that before such questions are put adequate inquiry should be made to ascertain that there is ground for them.