The antivivisectionists have, with the reassembling of Congress, renewed their agitation, and their spokesman in the Senate, Senator Gallinger, has again introduced their bill (see our "Miscellany" columns, this week) to regulate experiments in the District of Columbia. While this is speciously drawn and apparently innocent in most of its provisions, its real object is to satisfy the ultimate purpose of the zoöphiles as an entering wedge in the effort to prohibit vivisection altogether. Any one who has read their literature can readily see that no halfway measures will satisfy them, and that this is only a part of a general movement to enact prohibitory laws throughout the United States. As drawn up, the bill, if passed, could seriously embarrass the experimental work of the U. S. Agricultural Department as well as that of the Army and Navy and Marine-Hospital medical laboratories, and for this reason, as well as because