Correspondence (2)

Correspondence, Statements of Author's Account (Oxford University Press), Memorandum of Agreement. The file includes a number of Paton's reprinted papers that address the topic of experimentation and animal welfare, together with related background material, and includes 35mm transparencies x 17 and b/w photographs x 9, utilised in Paton's Herbert Spencer Lecture (1982), The Osler Oration (1978) and Man and Mouse (1984). The file has a running index which is retained. As the correspondence reveals, Man and Mouse had its origins in an expansion of Paton's Herbert Spencer Lecture, 'Animal Experiment: Benefit, Responsibility, and Legislation'. With the working title 'Responsible Animal Experiment', Man and Mouse was originally conceived as a pamphlet and then as a short book: "I have now discussed with colleagues...the question of the separate publications of your Herbert Spencer lecture. The consensus of opinion is that even if we had to wait for it a short book of about 100 pages would be much preferable to a pamphlet of, say, 40 pages" (OUP to Paton, 21 March, 1983).

1977-1991

1 file (in 2 parts)