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ANALYSIS 01' CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
kilogrammes of meat. In 1869 the number was 2758, which 
gave on an average 551,600 kilogrammes, which is an increase 
of 337 animals* or 67*400 kilogrammes of meat. 
The consumption of horseflesh has been considerable 
in Germany within the last few years. We find from official 
documents that, in 1861, there were three horse butchers in 
Berlin; in 1869 there were eighteen. The consumption in 
1861 was 519 pounds; in 1869 it was 4026 
This increase is principally owing to the great care taken 
by the police that none but perfectly healthy horses should 
be sold for human food, the inspection being made before and 
after the slaughter. Two veterinary surgeons are specially ap- 
pointed for the inspection, and all meat unfit for consump- 
tion is condemned, and the offending parties are fined. 
There are horse butcheries on a large scale at Molenbeck, 
Saint-Jean, Kcelenberg, Vilvorde, and Louvain, of which we 
will give an account in the next number. 
INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONGRESS. 
At its third meeting, held in Zurich in 1869, it was de- 
cided that the next meeting should be in Bruxelles, in 1870, 
and we were entrusted with the organisation of this fourth 
meeting. The following is the account which we give of the 
steps taken with a view of fulfilling the mission entrusted 
to us ; and the motives which have compelled us to renounce 
it. 
On the 1st of December, 1869, we addressed a circular to 
two veterinary surgeons, members of the congress in the 
several countries which had taken part in the International 
Veterinary Congress of Zurich, to be informed to what ex- 
tent the wishes expressed by that meeting and the two pre- 
ceding had been adopted by their governments. 
On the 13 th of December we wrote to the minister of the 
interior, in order to submit to him the programme we had 
sketched, and also our views and wants relative to the 
organization of the projected congress. 
We required a building containing a room large enough 
to accommodate from 200 to 300 persons, with a tribune 
for the public, besides three or four smaller rooms for 
the meetings of the sections. We added that the latter might 
not be absolutely necessary, as we intended to constitute 
immediately as many sections or committees as there were 
questions in the programme, on which we should have nomi- 
nated the savants , foreign or denizen, distinguished by their 
