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labours on the special subjects of the questions. These com- 
mittees or sections would have been directed to send in their 
reports by the 1 st of August in the present year at the latest, to 
enable us to have them printed and distributed at least a 
fortnight before the 5th of September, the date fixed for the 
opening of the congress. 
Proceeding thus, we hoped to be able to submit to the 
meeting some special questions selected from those — of 
which the solution seemed most important — well-digested 
considerations and reports on such question, the discussion 
of which would have been of greater benefit from the fact of 
being conveniently prepared. This plan constituted, in our 
opinion, a happy innovation, which would have put the con- 
gress on a level with other scientific bodies, which we deemed 
indispensable for the profound and serious consideration of 
controverted questions which congresses in general have to 
discuss. 
Finally, we required stenographic presses for the printing 
of the documents ; messengers, &c. But above all, pecuniary 
means to cover the necessary expenses, and to give to our 
foreign colleagues a similar reception to those of Hamburg, 
Vienna, and Zurich. 
These demands not having been acceded to, we have been 
reluctantly obliged to renounce the fulfilling of the mission 
entrusted to us. 
(Signed) A. Thiernesse, 
F. Defays, 
Wehenkel. 
This was followed by the circular No. 1, which has already 
appeared in the Veterinarian. 
Circular No. 2. 
International Veterinary Congress. — Time of 
Meeting. — Programme of the Questions for Dis- 
cussion. 
To the Veterinary Surgeons , Agriculturists , Sfc., of all countries. 
Brussels. 
Gentlemen, — At the third meeting of the International 
Veterinary Congress, held at Zurich, 1867, it was decided 
that it would meet again in the month of September, 1870, 
at Brussels, and we were entrusted with the organization of 
this fourth meeting. In conformity with this decision we 
have to announce to you the time of meeting, and to commu- 
