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We were shown the laboratories, operating rooms, lecture 

 theatres, etc. We also visited the buildings where the experi- 

 mental animals are kept ; rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cattle, 

 calves, etc., and were shown animals which had been inocu- 

 lated and which were undergoing experiments for research 

 purposes, those inoculated with rabies virus being kept in 

 strong iron cages carefully locked and marked " dangerous." 



ALFORD VETKRINARY COLLEGE, PARIS PROF. NOCARD. 



We were shown over this institution by Prof. Liautard. It 

 was founded by Bourgelat in 1766, is richly endowed by the 

 Government and is replete in all requisites for thorough 

 veterinary tuition. 



We sent in our cards and were not kept long waiting to 

 accomplish the object of our visit, viz.: to meet Prof. Nocard, 

 who is the head of the Government Veterinary Staff, and 

 considered to be one of the highest authorities, if not the 

 highest authority on animal diseases in Europe. He had 

 taken part in the discussion of the question as to whether or 

 not the British Veterinary Staff were correct in asserting that 

 the form of pneumonia discovered in some Canadian cattle 

 was contagious pleuro-pneumonia. I found him, in conse- 

 quence, well informed on live stock matters in Canada. His 

 views of contagious diseases are given under that heading. 



We also paid a short visit to Prof. Cadiot, Professor of Veter- 

 inary Medicine and Surgery and author of Exercises in Equine 

 Surgery. 



We also visited the abattoir and the Zoological Garden, Le 

 Jardin d'Acclimatation, which is a most extensive and 

 valuable collection of animals of all kinds, the numbers and 

 varieties of dogs being very large and specimens exceptionally 

 good. 



