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nicus from the sheath by means of a fine needle applied 

 along the labrum and have seen them replaced in the 

 same manner. The nymphs of this species were also 

 found attacking the larvsB of the currant sawfly. — Can. 

 Entomologist. 



EDITORIAL. 



Restriction of Vivisection.— A bill is pending- in the U. 

 S. Senate to restrict vivisection. Numerous men who 

 consider themselves accurate observers are opposing- it 

 and are representing- that it " prevents experiments upon 

 living- animals." They show themselves to be neither ac- 

 curate observers nor accurate readers for it does nothing- 

 of the sort. The bill permits : — (1) All the experiments 

 performed while the animal is insensible to pain, (2) All 

 kinds of surgical operations for testing- new methods of 

 surgical procedure, (3) The testing- of new drug-sor medi- 

 cines, (4) AH kinds of inoculation experiments or bacterio- 

 log-ical investigations into the causes of diseases. 



Out of 1239 replies from the leading- physicians written 

 on this subject, 968 have favored such restrictions as are 

 made in this bill. 



Dr. L. E. Rauterberg-, late of the microscopical divi- 

 sion of the Army Medical Museum has written to a senator 

 as follows : 



It was my lot for a number of years to be eng-ag-ed in the 

 microscopical division of the Arm} Medical Museum, 

 where I saw practiced the most inhuman and barbarous 

 mutilations of animals under the supervision, and with the 

 sanction, of the United States officer in charg-e. A desired 

 part or section of the animal would be removed, not under 

 aucesthesia, and the poor beast would be then placed back 

 in its cage or vessel until it suited the convenience of the 

 operator to help himself to another portion so long- as the 

 animed would survive these tortures. I have thus seen ani- 

 mals with eyes, sections of brain, and other parts removed 

 and kept in reserve for future experiment for a number 



