“…) injection of ,B-adrenoceptor blocking agents induces bradycardia in cats (Kelliher & Buckley, 1970), dogs (Srivastava, Kulshrestha, Singh & Bhargava, 1972), rabbits (Reid, Lewis, Myers & Dollery, 1974) and rats (Ito & Schanberg, 1974), whilst under the same experimental conditions, P-adrenoceptor stimulating drugs, especially isoprenaline, provoke tachycardia in dogs (Bhargava, Mishra & Tangri, 1972) cats (Gagnon & Melville, 1967) and rabbits (Toda, Matsuda & Shimamoto, 1969;Reid et al, 1974;Day & Roach, 1974a). …”