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‘richness of the region in question is shown by the fact that they 
number in total 705 species, which are divided among 197 
: se Of the 705, 135 are Batrachia and 570 are Reptilia. 
Of snak 
l of the Smithsonian Institution January 16, 1886, it is not pub- 
lished until October 16, 1887. 
_Ulustrations of Vivisection.t—The errors of the antivisec- 
_ tonists have been so often set forth that it would seem unneces- 
_ Sy to repeat them, especially in view of the fact that the society 
issues this pamphlet did at one time restrict its efforts to the 
: dia Proper restraint of unnecessary and needlessly cruel vivi- 
T section, 
-Pressible and irrational lady, Miss Frances Power Cobbe, the 
- Society lays itself open to a repetition of all the just complaints 
_ Made against their movement by the science of the day. Dogs 
| : rabbits strapped to holders in awkward positions may excite 
yy i 
Painless. In the infliction of suffering, however, which accom- 
‘Panies some of the physiological experiments, the humane scien- 
no m 
tific man takes 
This . 
4 te IS one of the illustrations of* one of the noblest of 
a qualities gone wrong. 
io f Vivisection, or Experiments rp k Feompre sa y 
pa gists, namely, Claude Bernard and Paùl Bert, as r ; 
Cobbe, aS Martyrs” and « Light in Dark Places.” By Miss Frances Power 
elphia : American Society for the Restriction of Vivisection. 
