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found an echo in the whole English press. How much do I 
regret, gentlemen, that I cannot here describe in all their details 
the many ingenious contrivances and persevering efforts, of 
which I have been either the witness or the confidant. However, 
the subscriptions which flowed in from all parts bore evidence 
of the opulence, and at the same time of the munificence, of that 
wealthy country. 
" What was to become of these abundant resources ? It was 
necessary to make an equitable distribution, and it therefore 
required devotion to complete the work of liberality. Delegates 
offered their services to distribute relief to our cultivators in their 
distress, even from the midst of our ruined villages. Courageous 
as soldiers, zealous as missionaries, exact as accountants, on their 
return they prepared with marvellous accuracy the balance-sheet 
of these novel commercial operations, which consisted in giving 
everything and receiving nothing." 
XVI. — Sanitary Police and the Cattle-Plague. By M. Bouley. 
[Translated from the ' Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie 
des Sciences,' vol. Ixxiv., No. 18, April 29, 1872, pp. 11,54-1165. — H. M. J.] 
An international Sanitary Conference was held at Vienna on the 
16th March last, at the suggestion of the Austro-Hungarian 
Government, to propose a code of regulations for a uniform 
sanitary police. By adopting uniform measures both for pre- 
venting the introduction of cattle-plague, as well as for arresting 
its propagation, there need be no interruption of the ordinary com- 
mercial relations between the signitaries of the Convention, even 
if, notwithstanding the preventive measures adopted, the cattle- 
plague were introduced into one district or another of the different 
countries. 
Eleven States were represented at the Conference by twenty- 
six delegates, namely, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Belgium, 
France, Great Britain, Italy, the Roumanian Principalities, 
Russia, Servia, Switzerland, and Turkey. Of the delegates, 
fifteen belonged to the veterinary profession, and eleven were 
administrative functionaries attached to the sanitary service ol 
their respective countries, and well qualified to pronounce an 
opinion on the propositions which required to be submitted tc 
their judgment. 
The questions on which the Conference had been summoned 
to deliberate were no fewer than sixty-five in number, and several 
others were added at the request of the representatives them- 
selves. One remarkable circumstance deserves to be mentionet'i 
