and opinions are very much divided, — a h 

 upon either side. I have endeavored to gi 

 the most reliable evidence now out and I 

 undoubtedly be series of interesting experi 



sobriety and his general condition. Make sure that the 





inflicted the bite was a specimen of a Heloderm. Be ca 





destroy the victim with the remedies _\ou adm 





of the bite. A quart of raw whiskey, practically given ; 





may prove more fatal than the bite of ten Heloderms. If 



the patient 



die after the bite of one of these reptiles, be sure to ascerl 



:ain whether 



it was from the effects of the bite or from the effects of t 



he remedies 



administered. The locality of the bite and other matter 



h of course, 



should also be carefully noted. (R. W. Shufeldt in 



' : 



Medical Journal, May 3d, 1891. 





T heCervical Vertebrae of the Monotremata.— In tne Janu- 

 ary number of this journal, 1892, I have stared that the . 

 are absent in the cervicals of ihe Monotreinatu. I have been looking 

 over a paper lately by C. Hasse and W. Sohwarck. >m.i.. n /.urn 

 vergleiehenden Anatomie der Wirbelsauh . publish* '1 m N ol. I, of Dr. 

 C. Hasse's Anatomische Studien, Leipzig 1873; I find that these 

 authors have also described the absence of the zygapophyses in 

 Omithorhyuchus and Tachyglossus (Echidna).- G. Baur. 



The Introduction of Reindeer into Alaska.— A very inter- 



estin- experiment in the introduction of reindeer into this country 

 has been commenced. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, the government agent of 

 education in Alaska, has begun the work. During the past season he 

 imported sixteen reindeer from Siberia, which cost about $160 00. 



Next ve-ar he pi tablish a herd of reimle.i in the neighbor- 

 hood of Fort Clarence and expects to begin with 100 animals. 

 Liberia has vast numbers of thesi- animals, and iu its climate and 



