§ MR. SAMUEL SMITH (Flintshire)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether the Education Department have sanctioned the use of the text-books in the London Board Schools with regard to vivisection, in which painful experiments on living animals and their result are described in detail without stating that such experiments are in any way exceptional?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. E. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityNo; the Education Department does not sanction text-books used in elementary schools, but it has power to disallow any book that is considered unsuitable. The text-book referred to in the Question shall be obtained, and the Question whether its contents are suitable for the instruction of children considered.