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NOTES. 
Bestiarian Doings. — We borrow the subjoined paragraph from 
the “ Medical News and Circular”: — “It is hardly necessary 
for us to say that the anti-vivisedtionists do not stop at equivo- 
cation or even at deliberate lying in their desire to influence 
public opinion. Two of them have, we are glad to say, been 
brought to book. One Ernst Weber has recently been sen- 
tenced to eight weeks’ imprisonment for having in the journal of 
which he is editor published, under the heading “ Vivisection of 
a Man,” a statement that about eight years ago a Jewish physi- 
cian had made a post-mortem examination of a man while only 
apparently dead, and therefore had performed vivisection on 
him. Dr. Pelz, who had performed the post-mortem in ques- 
tion, summoned him before a court of justice, with the above 
result. A clergyman of Munster, also, who was the author of 
the article, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment.” The 
Ernst Weber here mentioned is doubtless the “ knight of high 
orders,” author of “ Die Folter-Kammern der Wissenschaft,” 
the text-book of German Bestiarians. For proofs of his former 
regard for truth, the reader is referred to “ Wider die Human- 
aster,” by Professor Goltz, reviewed in “Journal of Science 
(1883, p. 552). 
M. J. C. Van Beek ( Archives N eerlandaises) holds that the 
changes observed in the filtration of water or of dissolved or 
finely-divided matter through fibrous membranes under the 
influence of pressure, or of a prolongation of the experiment, are 
due to changes in the distance of the fibres constituting the 
membrane. Hence it is irrational to extend the results thus 
obtained to the exudation of a liquid through the coats of the 
blood-vessels and the capillaries. 
Dr. Myers, in Surgeon-General Gordon’s “ Epitome of the 
Reports of the Medical Officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime 
Customs’ Services,” testifies that opium-smoking does nothing 
like so much harm as alcoholic drinking. 
“ Soisom,” writing in “ Cosmos les Mondes ” complains that 
“ the efforts made to destroy the study of the Latin language 
because it is ecclesiastic destroys a bond of union among the 
nations which would have gone on increasing.” [The efforts 
made to curtail classical studies have no reference whatever to 
the “ ecclesiastical ” character of the Latin tongue. That lan- 
o-ua^e has Ions: ceased to be a medium of intercourse between 
