1885.] Recent Literature. * 483 
the new officer is entirely unknown in science, the cause for 
regret is the greater. 
The bestiarians are getting into trouble through their 
misrepresentations and libels. We learn from the Journal of 
Science that one Ernst Weber, in Germany, has been imprisoned 
for six months for making false assertions respecting the physio- 
logical investigations of Dr. Pelz. Professor H. N. Martin, of 
Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, publishes a vigorous 
contradiction of the assertions of some British bestiarians, and 
protests against their statements as libelous. In Philadelphia Dr. 
Wister, addressing the Women’s Society for the suppression of 
Physiology, calls vivisection “a crime.” On the other hand Dr. 
W. W. Keen made vivisection the subject of his valedictory be- 
fore the graduating class of the Women’s Medical College. He 
demonstrated the importance of this branch of physiological 
research. 
Orpea 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
a revised index of generic and specific names, referred both to 
pages and to plates, for all three volumes. The bulk of the third 
part is, however, devoted to descriptions of the new species o 
tained not only from Pennsylvania but from Arkansas, Rhode 
Island and other parts of the country. The number of new forms, 
souri, Kansas, etc. 
nizable between the plants of strata of the same stage ; but a 
large number of species are only locally found. The differences 
in the vegetation are still more marked according to strati 
cal distribution of the measures, or between th 
strata of different horizons; and as new c 
