Few of the criminals in our jails are responsible for the deaths of more than a small number of persons; few of them have attempted widespread destruction of life. But it is the opinion of eminent physicians that through the pernicious teachings of the antivivisection leaders we shall in a few years have epidemics that will destroy the lives of many thousands of children. Unless we wish for a return of the plagues and pestilences that once devastated wide areas on this world before the introduction of modern methods, we should use every means in our power to discourage these dangerous fanatics. I believe that it is the duty of all good citizens who belong to antivivisection societies to send in their resignations at once, and to stand with our government, our great physicians, surgeons, veterinarians, agriculturalists, educators, and divines in approving and supporting properly conducted animal experimentation and sane humane education generally. After the presentation of this paper by Mr. Baynes before the American Society of Mammalogists, at its fifth annual meeting, May 15 to 17, 1923, in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, the Society unanimously passed these resolutions: WHEREAS, It is a fact known to all thinking people that most of the great advances in medicine and surgery have been made as a result of experiments on living animals, especially mammals, and WHEREAS, It is the belief of our eminent physicians, surgeons, and veterinarians, and all others having great responsibility for the health of human beings and of animals, that future advances in these fields will be made chiefly as the result of similar experiments, and WHEREAS, It is known that these experiments almost invariably are conducted humanely and with a minimum of discomfort to the animals used, and WHEREAS, There is an organized movement being carried on by certain misinformed and misguided individuals who seek to prevent or seriously interfere with such experiments, be it _Resolved_, that we, members of the American Society of Mammalogists, in annual convention assembled in the city of Philadelphia, on the sixteenth day of May, 1923, are of opinion that, in the best interests of real humanity, animal experimentation, including vivisection, as practiced in our laboratories today, should continue unhampered. HYGEIA _A Journal of Individual and Community Health_ The publication through which the medical profession of the United States presents to the public interesting, instructive and authoritative articles about health _Published Monthly_ _$3.00 the year――25 cents the copy_ AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 535 North Dearborn Street - CHICAGO Transcriber’s Notes: