§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how often within the last two years the Physiological Laboratory, University College, London, has been visited by the Government inspector: is he aware that Mr. R. E Lloyd. B. Sc., in the Journal of Physiology, dated 2nd February, refers to experiments which be made upon three cats and four monkeys, the animals being allowed to linger for two months before death ensued; will he ascertain whether these experiments were made without the use of anæsthetics and, if they were, will he say when a certificate enabling Mr. Lloyd to dispense with the use of anæsthetics was granted z and whether any of these experiments were made in the presence of a Government inspector.
*THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE; RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolThe Physiological Laboratory at University College was visited by the Government Inspector three times in 1898, and once in 1899. During the last quarter of 1899' no experimental work was being carried, on there. As regards the last three paragraphs of the question, I think, the article in the Journal of Physiology has been misunderstood. It does not appear that Mr. Lloyd performed any experiments on living animals at all; and he refers in the paper only. so far as his own work is concerned, to microscopical examination of some brains removed after death from animals upon which experiments had been previously made under, anæsthetics by a. person, holding the proper certificates.