Heading: (Animal Rights - 1913 NY Society for Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation)
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Title: Campaign by NY Society for Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation
Place Published: Brooklyn
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Date Published: 1913
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Society for the Prevention of Abuse in Animal Experimentation. “Campaign of 1913” (Brooklyn, 1913) Original wrappers. 3 x 6 inches, 29pp. 

The Society, headed by a rich Rochester businessman who owned a large Georgia cotton plantation and the equally-wealthy Jewish partner in a Wall Street banking firm - with advisers like naturalist John Burroughs and Unitarian reform clergyman John Haynes Holmes – took a more moderate stance than other “anti-vivisection” crusaders. It opposed a “disastrous” ban on all scientific animal experimentation but considered its “unrestricted practice” as “abhorrent to the humane and humanitarian spirit”. That year, the Society modestly proposed creation of a Commission to investigate how “legitimate scientific research” might be conducted while protecting animals – as well as hapless humans in charity hospitals - from “unnecessary suffering”.  Scarce.  WorldCat locates only 4 institutional copies, including one at UC San Francisco which is incomplete.

very good