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The Bill for the total abolition of physiological experimenta- 
tion introduced into the House of Commons by the Bestiarians, 
was simply “ talked out.” It is particularly gratifying to find 
that the Home Secretary could see no reason for increasing the 
stringency of the existing law. The public seem recovering from 
the “ anti-vivisection” mania, and if the medical profession and 
men of Science generally do not relapse into carelessness, there 
is room to hope that the agitation may subside, and that its 
agents may have to seek some more useful method of earning a 
livelihood. 
A. W. S., writing on Kangaroo hunting in the “ Squire,” tells 
us that a female kangaroo when hard pressed by the dogs, pulled 
her young one out of her pouch, dragged it in the path of her 
pursuers, and by thus sacrificing her offspring made good her 
own escape. 
Dr. J. K. Kellogg (“ Chicago Sanitary News”) “ can recom- 
mend tobacco to kill vermin of all kinds, except a kind of para- 
site that breeds in bar-rooms and billiard-halls, and may often be 
seen adhering to lamp-posts.” 
Beet-root sugar is now admitted to be distinct from cane-sugar. 
Its sweetening power is at least 30 per cent, lower, whilst its 
polarising power is greater. Hence, to sell beet-root sugar 
(betose) at the price of cane-sugar is a fraud. 
March last has had at Brussels a mean temperature of only 
1*9° C., as against an average of 5*3°. There have*been 20 days 
of frost, the average number being only 8. (“ Ciel et Terre.”) 
C. F. Krukenberg (“Verhand. Physik. Med. Gesell. Wurz- 
burg,”) in a recent study of the colouring matter of egg-shells, 
confirms the existence of oorhodein, described by Mr. Sorby and 
Herr Liebermann. He gives to Sorby’s oocyan the name of 
biliverdine, and the yellow and red ooxanthine of the same 
physicist he terms respectively oochlorine and ooxanthine. The 
other colours described by Mr. Sorby he has been unable to re- 
cognise. All flesh-olive or leather-coloured shells, and all which 
are spotted, sprinkled, or marbled with red, brown, or black, and 
all spotted or scribbled with ash-grey, contain oorhodein, rarely 
unmixed with oocyan. Oocyan is found in all green and blue 
egg-shells. Oorhodein is wanting in all the Cursores and in the 
Crypturidse. 
Dr. Monckton, lecturing on “ The Human Will and its Cor- 
relatives,” before the Maidstone Natural History and Philoso- 
phicalSociety (“ Light”) asks, “ Can mind-effort produce anything 
else than internal mental results without physical mediation ? 
Can one mind act immediately on another mind ? Can it affect 
another’s bodily organisation ? Can it operate on inanimate 
objects without physical intermediation ?” 
