We observe with pleasure in the Animal World for this
month that Sign or Peruzzi's recent visit to this country was made the occasion of presenting him, as a member of the "Italian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals," with a very able address, in which his attention is requested to the vivisections of Professor Schiff, of Florence,—probably, even by his own con- fession, almost the most unscrupulous of living vivisectors,--and especially to his work, " Lezioni de Fisiologia Sperimentale," in which very frank admissions will be found showing the extra- ordinary scale of his operations. Those who only know Professor Schiff by his letters to the Times would be surprised to see how unshrinkingly in his more scientific works he admits, what in those letters he seemed to take credit with the public for denying. Signor Peruzzi gave a cordial reply to the address, admitting the difficulties he felt as to the subject of vivisection in general, but admitting also that the municipal laws of Florence against cruelty to animals were very defective, and that "a much more extended measure was required."
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