254 Recent Literature. [ March, 
—— The bestiarians in Belgium have appropriately united with 
the antivaccinationists in the publication of a journal entitled 
The Friend of the People. In Paris and in Philadelphia the anti- 
vivisection societies have modified their titles so as to state that 
their object is to regulate, and not to abolish vivisection. To 
such a service reasonably executed, no one should object. How- 
ever our hopes of rational conduct on their part, are somewhat 
abated by the addresses delivered by some of their members. It 
is still asserted in Philadelphia, that no benefit to physiological 
science has been derived from vivisection! In Paris a lady mem- 
ber denounces the experiments made by Pasteur in the search for 
the methods of attenuating animal poisons, declaring that it were 
better to endure rabies than tolerate the (?) cruelties inflicted on 
animals by Pasteur. 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
Coutter’s Rocky Mountain Borany.—This neat manual, in 
its substantial binding, good paper and excellent typography, 
reminds one every way of the well-known Gray’s Manual, of 
which it is, in fact, designed to bea companion volume. It 1s 
intended for use in the region lying between the rooth meridian 
on the east and the Great basin on the west, and extending from 
the northern line of New Mexico northward to the British 
boundary. Its range, therefore, includes Colorado, Wyoming, 
Montana, Western Dakota, Western Nebraska and Western 
Kansas. 
There are several features of the book which are especially 
noteworthy. In it we have for the first time, so far as we are 
aware, merican manual of botany with the gymnosperms 
standing in proper relation to the angiosperms, The outline of 
the arrangement is as follows, viz: 
Series I. PH ANOGAMIA. 
Class I. ANGIOSPERMA. 
Class Il. GYMNOSPERMÆ. 
Series II. PTERIDOPHYTA. 
As indicating further the modern views held by the author, a 
1 Manual of the Botany (Phanogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountan 
Region from New Mexico to the British boundary, By JoHN M. Courter, Ph.D., 
professor of botany in Wabash College and editor of the Botanical Gazette. Ivison, 
Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York and Chicago., 1885, pp. xvi, 454, 28. 
