400 PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 
to that subject now, and hence we shall briefly advert to a 
few important points. 
With Naples, as the furthest south, we begin, and here the 
school, which at other times we had found in a dilapidated 
condition- a real wreck — was, when last we visited it, in pro- 
cess of very great reform, and it promises to yield a rich 
harvest in time. Fauvet holds the chair of Veterinary Medi- 
cine and Surgery in the University of Rome, a fact more 
worthy of note as a glory to our professional rank, than as 
calculated to confer immediate advantages. Tonelli pro- 
fessed for many years on veterinary matters in the school 
of Galileo, but on reaching Pisa, we regretted to find 
that his course had for some time been suspended. A 
different lot awaited us beyond the Apennines. Here, in 
the most ancient of universities, that of Bologna, we found 
Alessandrini, whose museum of comparative anatomy and 
pathology promises to be, in our profession, what John 
Hunter’s is to human surgery. At Ferrara, also, are distin- 
guished men, and under the able direction of the zealous 
and learned Professor Bonaccioli, this veterinary school 
sends out, probably, the best veterinary surgeons in the 
Papal States ; we can promise good fruit to be there reaped. 
In Lombardy, a veterinary teacher is attached to both 
Universities, of Padua and Pavia, with the sole object of 
instructing the students of human medicine in comparative 
pathology. It is in the Lombardo-Venetian capital that the 
Austrian government patronizes a veterinary school, the 
progress of learning in which we shall be able to record, 
thanks to the perseverance and zeal of our friend, Dr. 
Corvini, who has recently founded a veterinary periodical 
which is daily gaining importance. 
In Turin, the Brothers Lessona, both vigorous, talented, 
and useful professors, are seconded by young men of very 
great distinction. Our soul abhors partiality ; we are not 
guilty of it in selecting from the little family, Ercolani, in 
whom, with his colaborator Dr. Luigi Vella, we confide as 
one of the most solid props of our hope in the progress of 
veterinary learning. 
The Alps crossed, we are in the birthplace of Haller. The 
veterinary school of Berne is one of the most distinguished 
in Europe for the erudition of its staff, and though we 
cannot say so much for Zurich, we have the brightest anti- 
cipations with regard to one of its teachers, Dr. Zangger. 
The Grand Duchy of Baden and the little kingdom of 
Wurttemberg are both famed for their schools, thanks to the 
labours and talents of Fuchs and Hering. I must specially 
